On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 03:19:58PM +0200, Eric F. GARIOUD wrote: > On Friday 12 April 2013 23:41:05 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > Attached you will find the various changes I plan to apply to > > kernel-2.eclass > > Thank you for these. > > > That being said, since 3.8.7 has landed upstream we would like to hear > > about any issues we don't know about yet that would block stabilization; > > if we can, I plan to start stabilization in less than two weeks. Unless > > there are valid reasons for this to be done earlier/later. > > 1/ Thank you for telling about your intentions. > > 2/ The following is for information. I do not mean that it should block the > stabilization of the gentoo-sources-3.8.7 and I won't open a bug blocking it. > > Up to you to decide if it should actually block it or not : > > - ck-sources-3.8.3 users reported to me a regression occurring when booting > in > UEFI mode. > > - After analysis, I believe that it is related to a problem reported here : > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/461 > > - A couple of patches have been submitted by Matthew Garrett : > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/19/487 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/26/661 > https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/26/669 > > - I have parsed (but possibly not carefully enough) Greg's logs for the 3.8 > branch and the above mentioned patches does not seem having been backported.
They have not because no one has asked me to do so. Please read the kernel file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to properly do this. thanks, greg k-h
