From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A1B9C43331 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2232920784 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:44:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730856AbgCaNoF (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:44:05 -0400 Received: from wtarreau.pck.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:34217 "EHLO 1wt.eu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1730366AbgCaNoE (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2020 09:44:04 -0400 Received: (from willy@localhost) by pcw.home.local (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 02VDi0jb024676; Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:44:00 +0200 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 15:44:00 +0200 From: Willy Tarreau To: Sasha Levin Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Backport dependencies helper Message-ID: <20200331134400.GA24671@1wt.eu> References: <20200331123217.GM4189@sasha-vm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20200331123217.GM4189@sasha-vm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.6.1 (2016-04-27) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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