Re: [PATCH 4.4 00/32] 4.4.15-stable review

From: Kevin Hilman
Date: Thu Jul 07 2016 - 13:55:26 EST


Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.15 release.
> There are 32 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> let me know.
>
> Responses should be made by Sat Jul 9 01:16:17 UTC 2016.
> Anything received after that time might be too late.
>
> The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.15-rc1.gz
> or in the git tree and branch at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.4.y
> and the diffstat can be found below.

another minor nit/request: can you update your scripts to push all the
released stable tags to the new stable-rc tree?

Currently, it's missing the v4.4.14 tag, so the git-describe comes
looking like it's 115 patches on top of v4.4.13 instead of 33 patches on
top of v4.4.14:

$ git checkout origin/linux-4.4.y
HEAD is now at 5db8024c795f... Linux 4.4.15-rc1
$ git describe
v4.4.13-115-g5db8024c795f

Note that in my previous email, I did the git describe in a tree that
also had the released stable tree tags, so the git describe came out
right, but the auto-builders don't do that.

For the git describe to be most useful, it probably makes the most sense
if the released stable tree tags are also pushed to the stable-rc tree.

Thanks,

Kevin