From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753266AbZDURiR (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:38:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756733AbZDURhu (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:37:50 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.33.17]:45092 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756007AbZDURhs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:37:48 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to: cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-system-of-record; b=X8onI6VNRFn8fI55H8HBjnSC3LaLRgftChOJIiEC+WPKgCi/G29HpU4OcDuJTUbL+ saiquxsm8h+GAWr3Hlk6Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090421032728.GA14175@kroah.com> References: <88cc3e770904201826odfde9baodcf8c221a0296909@mail.gmail.com> <20090421032728.GA14175@kroah.com> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:41 -0700 Message-ID: <88cc3e770904211037p497fddb8x780b787987d4812@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [stable] question regarding the -stable patch queue ? From: Abhijit Karmarkar To: Greg KH Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:26:53PM -0700, Abhijit Karmarkar wrote: >> hi, >> >> i am trying to find if a particular upstream commit [1] will appear in >> the next -stable release of 2.6.28 kernel. > > Yes it will. nice. > >> i see this commit being marked as "-stable candidate". does that mean >> it will automatically make it to the next stable release? > > Yes. > good to know that. >> or should i submit a patch against the latest 2.6.28 stable series, to >> have this patch queued up for next stable release (2.6.28.10). can >> someone please advice? > > If you know that the commit that went into Linus's tree will not apply > to the 2.6.28-stable tree, please send an updated version to the > stable@kernel.org address. > this particular upstream commit (01522df346f846906eaf6ca57148641476209909) applies cleanly to 2.6.28-stable and fixes the panic. >> what is the recommend way to do this search ("will upstream patch X be >> included in the next stable release")? so i don't bug this list in >> future with similar queries. > > Just ask stable@kernel.org about it.  We've been a bit behind on > flushing out the -stable queue (right now my todo-stable mbox contains > 399 emails I need to wade through), due to vacations and conferences. > I'm slowly getting there, sorry for the delay. > no worries. thanks for maintaining the -stable series :-) looking forward to 28.10 thanks abhijit > thanks for your patience, > > greg k-h >