Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751836Ab3HTXRq (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:17:46 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38749 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751492Ab3HTXRo (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:17:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:17:43 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Guenter Roeck Cc: Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , stable , lwn@lwn.net, Hugh Dickins , Johannes Berg , Borislav Petkov , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Proposed stable release changes Message-ID: <20130820231743.GA992@kroah.com> References: <20130820224032.GA20491@kroah.com> <20130820231117.GA24702@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130820231117.GA24702@roeck-us.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1279 Lines: 34 On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:11:17PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > It would be even better if you could find the time to push -rc releases > into the stable repository before you accept patches into a stable branch. What do you mean by this? The git tree? I could do that, but when I have to drop a patch, it would cause a mess if I had to always go forwards. I could do branches for -rc releases, that end up as the "end-of-the-line", and I create the next .y release on top of the previous one, not the -rc release. That's kind of what I do "internally" when I create the -rc releases in the first place, but I just delete those throw-away trees, and never push them publicly anywhere. Does it really help anyone to do this, except for some automated testing? Doesn't the -rc patch work good enough for that? > I am now running my test suite on stable/master, so that would give it > some time to catch new problems before they make their way into a stable > branch. I don't understand what you mean here. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/