From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:41760 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750816AbdAJFf3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jan 2017 00:35:29 -0500 From: Kalle Valo To: Larry Finger Cc: Greg KH , stable@vger.kernel.org, weiyongjun1@huawei.com Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] rtlwifi: Fix kernel oops introduced with commit e49656147359" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree References: <148370520425473@kroah.com> <87o9zgz47b.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <29741a09-dd16-6fd5-3749-fd57db73f2ff@lwfinger.net> <87vatot7al.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <20170109200400.GA12033@kroah.com> <6bfeed2c-31fa-7524-1bb8-be71ecc79b0c@lwfinger.net> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 07:35:19 +0200 In-Reply-To: <6bfeed2c-31fa-7524-1bb8-be71ecc79b0c@lwfinger.net> (Larry Finger's message of "Mon, 9 Jan 2017 16:40:53 -0600") Message-ID: <87eg0btr3c.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Larry Finger writes: > On 01/09/2017 02:04 PM, Greg KH wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 08:30:42PM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: >>> >>> Ah, ok. I'm actually having similar problems and planning to come up >>> with a some sort of web page which would show what was the first Linux >>> release to contain the commit. (git-describe doesn't tell that and AFAIK >>> there is no other git command to show it.) If only I had more free time :) >> >> git describe --contains > > Greg, > > Thanks for that info. Now, all we have to do is remember to run the > command on mainline rather than our development branches. I'm still planning to implement some sort of user friendly service for this, thanks to Greg the implementation just got a lot easier. I'm thinking of at least showing the first release it was included in (like in this case v4.10-rc1) but also the trees where the patch is currently. This way you and me don't need to remember anything, except the url where to find it :) -- Kalle Valo