On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:12:04PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 03:58:15PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 09:01 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > (Apologies to those that got duplicates of this. I forgot to CC the
> > > stable list on my first sending of this. Mea culpa.)
> > >
> > > I went through the current Fedora F17 kernel and found quite a few
> > > patches we are carrying for bugs that should probably go to stable.
> > > Some of them have the stable tag in the upstream commit but don't seem
> > > to be queued up in the stable-queue tree on kernel.org. Maybe you
> > > already have those stashed somewhere.
> > [...]
> >
> > You can see Greg's stable queue(s) from
> > <git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git>.
>
> Right. Which is why I said "... queued up in the stable-queue tree on
> kernel.org".
Sorry, I somehow skimmed over that.
> > Many commits cc'd to stable don't cleanly apply. Unless it's easy to
> > resolve the conflict, Greg will usually send out a 'FAILED' message to
> > the addresses mentioned in the patch when this happens, and someone then
> > needs to provide a backported version that does apply.
>
> Yep, aware of that too. The commits I highlighted hadn't had any of
> those emails, either FAILED or applied. It seems Greg (or his scripts)
> has gone through a large portion of the tree again today and a number
> of them were picked up, so that's good.
>
> Anyway, the intention of the email was two-fold. 1) To highlight what
> Fedora is carrying in addition to the normal stable tree and why via
> bug numbers. You know, being good community members. 2) A gentle prod
> on perhaps including them in 3.4.5 so we (selfishly) can stop carrying
> them around as patches. That also goes back to point 1 though since it
> benefits others.
Yes, thanks for that.
I'm reminded that I should send some 3.2 fixes to myself from Debian's
patch queue.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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