Re: [PATCH 4.4 000/114] 4.4.300-rc1 review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Jan 27 2022 - 02:45:22 EST


On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 01:25:29PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On 1/24/22 10:41, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.4.300 release.
> > There are 114 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, 26 Jan 2022 18:39:11 +0000.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
>
> A new version of this branch was pushed into the stable-queue git
> repository around 10:30 PST, AFAICS without any actual changes.
> This caused all my builders to start from scratch (again).
> Would it be possible to avoid such dummy pushes ?

I'll try to avoid it, but it is usually easier for me to do "generate
all -rcs and push them out", than do to them individually, which is why
this happened.

sorry,

greg k-h