Re: [PATCH 3.16 000/294] 3.16.50-rc1 review

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 9:35 PM, Kevin Hilman <khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:40:36PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 13:21 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:55:30PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>> > > > I think if you upload the branch to the stable-rc git, that should produce
>>>> > > > the automated build and boot results via email or via the
>>>> > > > https://kernelci.org/job/ interface. Once there are some results
>>>> > > > there, I'll go through the list once more to see what warnings
>>>> > > > and failures remain.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I don't know of a way to have others push to that tree/branch at the
>>>> > > moment :(
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I'll go update that branch now...
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks!
>>>> >
>>>> > With the arm-soc tree, we simply have a shared group-id on
>>>> > gitolite.kernel.org and everyone in that group can push to it.
>>>> >
>>>> > If that is the only thing you need, it should be trivial to let Ben
>>>> > and Sasha push to /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/*.git as well,
>>>> > I'm sure helpdesk@xxxxxxxxxx can arrange that. Of course if you are
>>>> > worried about having multiple accounts with write access to all the
>>>> > branches, then that wouldn't be enough.
>>>>
>>>> I think I'd rather send a pull request to Greg at the start of the
>>>> review period.
>>>
>>> That works for me!
>>
>> We just discussed this on the #kernelci IRC channel. Since kernelci
>> has a whitelist of branches and 3.16 isn't currently on it, how about
>> just adding a different git tree for Ben's 3.2-rc and 3.16-rc releases?
>
> We are currently reaching the limits of our current build capacity, so
> want to understand the users before adding more trees.
>
> That being said, it seems Ben is now pushing to Greg's stable-rc, so
> we can pretty easily add linux-3.16.y to our list of stable-rc
> branches if there is enough interest.  Also, we would much prefer
> monitoring a git branch, since kernelci does not currently deal with
> git + quilt (and we have no time, and less motivation to add it) :)

Ben does not push to Greg's stable-rc, that was a mistake on my
side, but he does now have a git tree at
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/linux-stable-rc.git
that he said he'd push to in order to trigger build bots. It's not
git+quilt, so I'd assume it's still very easy to add, and the releases
are rare enough that I would not expect too much additional
work for kernelci.

       Arnd