Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-06 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Linus Torvalds wrote: > But I also can heartily just recommend that people who already _did_ > start on rc1 to rebase their current - hopefully not extensive - work. Thanks for the heads-up - we just rebased about 50 commits in -tip to avoid this bug: our normal workflow is to jump on -rc1

Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-05 Thread Junio C Hamano
Josh Triplett writes: >> It is trivial for you to fetch the refs/notes/do-not--checkout notes >> tree from me and merge it into your refs/notes/do-not--checkout >> notes tree, I would think; "git notes merge" may have room for >> improvement, but essentially it would just want a union of two >>

Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-05 Thread Josh Triplett
On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 10:10:05AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Christian Couder writes: > > >> (git notes would be nice for this, but they're hard to share reliably; > >> the above mechanism to accumulate entries from a file in the repo seems > >> simpler. I can imagine other possibilities.)

Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-05 Thread Junio C Hamano
Christian Couder writes: >> (git notes would be nice for this, but they're hard to share reliably; >> the above mechanism to accumulate entries from a file in the repo seems >> simpler. I can imagine other possibilities.) > > If the notes are created automatically from the `/.git-bisect-skip` >

RE: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-05 Thread David Laight
... > > Historically swap was a partition and larger than physical memory. > > This allows simple 'dump to swap' on panic (for many disk types). > > But I've not seen that support in linux. > > I know. We started with lots of small partitions, but nowadays the > distros wan't to install

Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-04 Thread Christian Couder
On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 1:58 AM Josh Triplett wrote: > On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 12:53:18PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > One additional reason for this note is that I want to not just warn > > people to not run this if you have a swapfile - even if you are > > personally not impacted (like I

Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-04 Thread Josh Triplett
[CCing the git list] On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 12:53:18PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Hey peeps - some of you may have already noticed that in my public git > tree, the "v5.12-rc1" tag has magically been renamed to > "v5.12-rc1-dontuse". It's still the same object, it still says > "v5.12-rc1"

Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi David, On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 5:56 PM David Laight wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:59 PM Linus Torvalds > > wrote: > > > And, as far as I know, all the normal distributions set things up with > > > swap partitions, not files, because honestly, swapfiles tend to be > > > slower and have

Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 4:43 AM Pavel Machek wrote: > > Would it make sense to do a -rc2, now, so new topic branches can be > started on that one? I was planning on doing an rc2 earlier, just not "this minute" early. I was expecting to see a few more of the normal fixes pulls come in, and perhaps

RE: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-04 Thread David Laight
> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:59 PM Linus Torvalds > wrote: > > And, as far as I know, all the normal distributions set things up with > > swap partitions, not files, because honestly, swapfiles tend to be > > slower and have various other complexity issues. > > Looks like this has changed in at

Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-04 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
Hi Linus, On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 1:59 PM Linus Torvalds wrote: > And, as far as I know, all the normal distributions set things up with > swap partitions, not files, because honestly, swapfiles tend to be > slower and have various other complexity issues. Looks like this has changed in at least

Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-04 Thread Krzysztof Kozlowski
On 04/03/2021 13:43, Pavel Machek wrote: >> One additional reason for this note is that I want to not just warn >> people to not run this if you have a swapfile - even if you are >> personally not impacted (like I am, and probably most people are - >> swap partitions all around) - I want to make

Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Hey peeps - some of you may have already noticed that in my public git > tree, the "v5.12-rc1" tag has magically been renamed to > "v5.12-rc1-dontuse". It's still the same object, it still says > "v5.12-rc1" internally, and it is still is signed by me, but the > user-visible name of the tag

A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag

2021-03-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
Hey peeps - some of you may have already noticed that in my public git tree, the "v5.12-rc1" tag has magically been renamed to "v5.12-rc1-dontuse". It's still the same object, it still says "v5.12-rc1" internally, and it is still is signed by me, but the user-visible name of the tag has changed.