Re: [PATCH 5.7 000/265] 5.7.7-rc1 review

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 07:18:26PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 02:37:53PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> > Hi Sasha,
> > 
> > On 6/29/20 9:13 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > 
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.7.7 release.
> > > There are 265 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 Wed 01 Jul 2020 03:14:48 PM UTC.
> > > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> > > 
> > > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > > 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-5.7.y&id2=v5.7.6
> > > 
> > 
> > Looks like patch naming convention has changed. My scripts look
> > for the following convention Greg uses. Are you planning to use
> > the above going forward? My scripts failed looking for the usual
> > naming convention.
> > 
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
> > 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.7.6-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-5.7.y
> > and the diffstat can be found below.
> 
> Sorry for that. I was hoping to avoid using the signed upload mechanism
> Greg was using by simply pointing the links to automatically generated
> patches on cgit (the git.kernel.org interface).
> 
> Would it be ok to change the pattern matching here? Something like this
> should work for both Greg's format and my own (and whatever may come
> next):
> 
> 	grep -A1 "The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:" | tail -n1 | sed 's/\t//'

If those don't work, I can still push out -rc1 patches.

It might be best given that the above -rc.git tree is unstable and can,
and will, change, and patches stored on kernel.org will not.

thanks,

greg k-h