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From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Backport dependencies helper
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:44:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200331134400.GA24671@1wt.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200331123217.GM4189@sasha-vm>

Hi Sasha,

On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 08:32:17AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Each
> directory represents a kernel version which we'll call K, and each file
> inside that directory is named after an upstream commit we'll call C,
> and it's content are the list of commits one would need to apply on top
> of kernel K to "reach" commit C.

That's very interesting! I still have nightmare-like memories or
complete week-ends spent trying to address this using heuristics
when I was maintaining 2.6.32 and 3.10. However how do you produce
these ? Is this related to the stable-deps utility in your stable-tools
repository ?

Thanks,
Willy

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-31 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-31 12:32 Backport dependencies helper Sasha Levin
2020-03-31 13:44 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2020-03-31 14:08   ` Sasha Levin
2020-03-31 14:41     ` Willy Tarreau
2020-04-03 14:24 ` Greg KH

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