On 15 February 2017 at 19:39, Eric Anholt <[email protected]> wrote: > Emil Velikov <[email protected]> writes: > >> From: Emil Velikov <[email protected]> >> >> The version tag used to nominate has bitten even experienced mesa >> developers. Not to mention that it deviates from the one used in the >> kernel leading to further confusion. >> >> Simplify things and omit it all together. >> >> Signed-off-by: Emil Velcro <[email protected]> >> --- >> Another option would be to align it with the kernel one, but that could >> bring even further confusion. > > I like this a lot -- I'm usually just copy-and-pasting someone else's cc > stable line, so I'll probably occasionally nominate my stuff for an > inactive stable branch. I'm not too worried about patches accidentally > applying to too-old code. > Ack, ty.
> FWIW, this is more or less how the kernel's stable branches have been > working for me -- I write a "Fixes: <short sha1> short commit subject" > line in the commit, and Greg cherry-picks it back to all stable branches > since that sha1 that it applies to. We have that one as well. It's a recent addition, so not really a silver bullet. We're getting there ;-) -Emil _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
