On 08/18/2014, 03:16 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
Am 18.08.2014 13:01, schrieb Takashi Iwai:
[...] what do you think of backup maintenance of Kernel:stable during your absence? Would you mind if anyone of kernel team takes over the role?
Hi, no, I wouldn't mind.
On a related matter, are the scripts that are used to maintain Kernel:HEAD and Kernel:stable actually in some public place others can submit patches against?
They are in the kernel repository: scripts/stableids -- generate a patch and a list of included SHAs scripts/stableup -- apply the patch and remove all patches from the repository having a SHA in the list above So: * in the linux tree with stable tree up-to-date: ~/repos/suse/kernel-source/scripts/stableids localhost v3.16..v3.16.1 That will scp patch-3.16.1 and ids file to localhost:/dev/shm Note that I personally use jslaby@some_suse_machine instead of localhost, hence scp. * in the suse kernel repo: ./scripts/stableup /dev/shm/patch-*[0-9] /dev/shm/ids That will move the patch to patches.kernel.org/, update series.conf and remove all patches which are superseded by the stable patch (including series.conf update).
Also I find it rather confusing that the master branch is being updated to a stable kernel rather than doing that on the stable branch only, given that v3.17-rc1 was tagged the day before the update to v3.16.1. It results in a non-linear history wrt upstream git.
I don't see the point. We are not even trying to preserve the history wrt to upstream git. This was like that for ages. It is just 3.16, 3.16.1, 3.17-rc1, which is a perfect linear history for our RPMs. Take into account that rc1 updates are not for free and require a hard and tedious work from Jeff's part. Until he sorts that out, it's IMNSHO good to have the stable releases in Kernel:HEAD. Quite the contrary, I (and perhaps others) do not want to see Kernel:HEAD (like 3.16) be lagging behind Kernel:stable (like 3.16.1). Kernel:stable shall be always behind Kernel:HEAD. thanks, -- js suse labs -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org