Re: [PATCH 5.2 000/135] 5.2.10-stable review

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 02:28:53AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 02:42:48AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On 2019-08-22, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:05:27AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > > > On 2019-08-22, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 01:05:56PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > It might be down to kernel.org mirroring, but the patch file doesn't
> > > > seem to be available yet (404), both in the wrong location listed
> > > > above - and the expected one under
> > > >
> > > > 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.2.10-rc1.gz
> > [...]
> > > Ah, no, it's not a mirroring problem, Sasha and I didn't know if anyone
> > > was actually using the patch files anymore, so it was simpler to do a
> > > release without them to see what happens. :)
> > > 
> > > Do you rely on these, or can you use the -rc git tree or the quilt
> > > series?  If you do rely on them, we will work to fix this, it just
> > > involves some scripting that we didn't get done this morning.
> > 
> > "Rely" is a strong word, I can adapt if they're going away, but
> > I've been using them so far, as in (slightly simplified):
> > 
> > $ cd patches/upstream/
> > $ wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/patch-5.2.9.xz
> > $ xz -d patch-5.2.9.xz
> > $ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.2.10-rc1.gz
> > $ gunzip patch-5.2.10-rc1.gz
> > $ vim ../series
> > $ quilt ...
> > 
> > I can switch to importing the quilt queue with some sed magic (and I
> > already do that, if interesting or just a larger amounts of patches are
> > queuing up for more than a day or two), but using the -rc patches has
> > been convenient in that semi-manual workflow, also to make sure to really
> > get and test the formal -rc patch, rather than something inbetween.
> 
> An easy way to generate a patch is to just use the git.kernel.org web
> interface. A patch for 5.2.10-rc1 would be:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-5.2.y&id2=v5.2.9
> 
> Personally this patch upload story sounded to me like a pre-git era
> artifact...

Given that we no longer do patches for Linus's -rc releases for the past
few years, maybe it is time to move to do the same for the stable
releases to be consistent.

thanks,

greg k-h