From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751840AbcFRPM7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:12:59 -0400 Received: from bh-25.webhostbox.net ([208.91.199.152]:32940 "EHLO bh-25.webhostbox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751285AbcFRPM5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jun 2016 11:12:57 -0400 Subject: Re: Stable -rc git trees and email headers To: Willy Tarreau , Greg KH References: <20160618031620.GA14082@kroah.com> <20160618052959.GA11059@1wt.eu> Cc: Kevin Hilman , Fengguang Wu , stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Guenter Roeck Message-ID: <576564E2.5000705@roeck-us.net> Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2016 08:12:34 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160618052959.GA11059@1wt.eu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated_sender: linux@roeck-us.net X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - bh-25.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - roeck-us.net X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: bh-25.webhostbox.net: authenticated_id: linux@roeck-us.net X-Authenticated-Sender: bh-25.webhostbox.net: linux@roeck-us.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/17/2016 10:29 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:16:20PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've finally gotten off my butt and made my quilt trees of patches into >> a "semi-proper" git tree to make it easier for people to test them. >> >> I'm now pushing the patches I accept into the stable queues into the git >> tree here: >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git >> >> I'll push them out in chunks, as I accept them, and when I do a "real" >> -rc release. Right now the HEAD of each branch will have a -rc1 tag on >> them, just because it makes it a bit easier on my end. > > Do you mean you'll tag them when you issue a review ? If so, maybe that > can help our testers automatically trigger a series of tests when they > spot a tag that was not tested yet instead of having to monitor emails ? > If that's the case, I have no issue with pushing a tag when I emit a > series as well. > I think he means that the topmost patch is similar to the following (taken from 4.6.y). Guenter --- commit f1976bc9e10f2abcea081a9d8bcf05e8633ea6ab Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Fri Jun 17 19:50:50 2016 -0700 Linux 4.6.3-rc1 diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 93068c2..47737f2 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ VERSION = 4 PATCHLEVEL = 6 -SUBLEVEL = 2 -EXTRAVERSION = +SUBLEVEL = 3 +EXTRAVERSION = -rc1 NAME = Charred Weasel