Re: [PATCH 4/4] systemd: v219 with stable fixes

["Bottazzini, Bruno" <bruno.bottazzini@intel.com>]

Hello Ross,

No problem, I will change the patch to use it the stable branch which I
think it will be better.

I will send this asap...

Thanks a lot for the reply! 

Best Regards,

On Qua, 2015-04-15 at 16:01 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 1 April 2015 at 13:52, Bottazzini, Bruno
> <bruno.bottazzini@intel.com> wrote:
>         The previous patch was done in the way you said but, Khem Raj
>         suggested
>         that we should use it as patches.
>         
>         Copying and Pasting what he said:
>         "Thats good, although we have to be open on stable branch to
>         do SRCREV
>          updates which we hardly do. We only backport fixed via master
>          so I see this as pointless from that angle."
>         
> 
> At the time - when master was frozen - that was true.  But
> unfortunately this didn't get applied in time for Fido, as a
> non-trivial patch that doesn't fix existing bugs there's a large
> barrier to pass.  Now that master is open the systemd recipe can in
> fact track the stable git branch instead, and insert the git hash into
> the PV so it's obvious that it's taken from git.
> 
> 
> Assuming that patch gets merged and doesn't cause problems, then it
> would be up to the Fido maintainer (that's Joshua Lock) to decide
> whether to merge a backport, which could well end up being this patch.
> 
> 
> Sorry about this, the final stage of the release was quite busy and
> this slipped straight through my fingers.
> 
> 
> Ross