Re: [Ksummit-discuss] bug-introducing patches

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Sat May 12 2018 - 00:38:38 EST


Hi all,

On Wed, 9 May 2018 20:47:27 +1000 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 9 May 2018 18:03:46 +0900 Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 10:47:57AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 10:44 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > > I think this is an excellent idea, copying in Stephen for his input.
> > > > I'm currently on holiday but unless someone convinces me it's a terrible
> > > > idea I'm willing to at least give it a go on a trial basis once I'm back
> > > > home.
> >
> > > Since Stephen merges all -fixes branches first, before merging all the
> > > -next branches, he already generates that as part of linux-next. All
> > > he'd need to do is push that intermediate state out to some
> > > linux-fixes branch for consumption by test bots.
>
> Good idea ... I will see what I can do.

See my announcement of a pending-fixes branch in linux-next (on LKML
and others)

> I currently have 44 such fixes branches. More welcome!

We are up to 55.

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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