Re: [PATCH 5.1 003/115] HID: input: make sure the wheel high resolution multiplier is set

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 11:22:55AM -0600, James Feeney wrote:
> Uhm - could someone please "clue me in" here?
> 
> When I look into:
> 
> 'move all the pending queues back to their "real" places'
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/commit/?id=c5da0df8985ac2f29ffdaba77bae201121bc0e10

No need to worry about that patch, that was done because my scripts
normally assume specific directory locations of the patch queues, and I
had to do a kernel release that did not include the existing pending
patches.

> I can find both the "d43c17ead879ba7c076dc2f5fd80cd76047c9ff4" patch, "HID: input: make sure the wheel high resolution multiplier is set" and the "39b3c3a5fbc5d744114e497d35bf0c12f798c134" patch, "HID: input: fix assignment of .value".
> 
> I take this to mean that these patches are "in the stable-queue".  But then, these patches are not "in the kernel".

Yes.

> So then, how do these patches go from being "in the stable-queue" to being "in the kernel"?

I apply them when I do the release in a few hours/days.

> To the "uninitiated" and "naive", as I am, to outward appearances, the
> patches are "just sitting there".  How do the patches get selected for
> inclusion into the "next" kernel revision?

I already selected them, sent emails saying they were selected and to
what specific branches they were selected to.  Then when the -rc
releases happen so that people can do one final round of testing and
object if I messed anything up, they get sent out again (which you
responded to here.)

If all goes well, when the "deadling" passes (usually 2 days +-2 days
depending on stuff), I'll do a realease and apply the patches "for real"
to the different kernel branches and cut a release.

Then I start all over again...

I understand that seeing a git tree of patches in a quilt series is odd,
but it is very powerful and works very very well for what we do here.

Does that help?

greg k-h