From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <54096C8D.8000008@huawei.com> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 15:55:57 +0800 From: Li Zefan MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Guenter Roeck CC: , Subject: Re: [kernel.org PATCH] Li Zefan is now the 3.4 stable maintainer References: <20140826230858.GA29970@kroah.com> <20140827045938.GA28282@roeck-us.net> <540813A5.7020704@huawei.com> <20140904183953.GA28599@roeck-us.net> In-Reply-To: <20140904183953.GA28599@roeck-us.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >>> Li, >>> >>> it would be great if you can send me information about your -stable queue, >>> ie how you maintain it and where it is located. This will enable me to >>> continue testing the stable queue for the 3.4 kernel. >>> >> >> Thanks for testing LTS kernels! >> >> This is my 3.4.y git tree: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/lizf/linux-3.4.y.git/ >> >> And this is the patch queue: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/lizf/linux-3.4.y-queue.git/ >> >> I use quilt. When I've added some patches to 3.4.y, I'll update this >> queue. The patches and series file are under /patches. Currently there's >> already a patch in the queue. >> >> When I release a new version, I'll clean up the queue by removing all >> the files under /patches. >> >> Hope this is all the information you need. Please tell me if you need >> me to slightly adjust my workflow so it's easier for you. > > It almost works. > > Problem is that the pending patch got converted to use instead of > just as common in Linux. When I try to apply it with "git quiltimport", > it bails out with "trailing whitespace" errors. "git am" with the individual > patch works fine for some reason, though. > > I can try to find a workaround, but it would be better to have the file in > linux file format to start with. Would that be possible ? > Yeah, I've fixed it. I'll run dos2unix for every patch file.