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Date:   Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:00:44 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 033/306] cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release()
 method to free sugov_tunables
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2021 at 09:36:20PM +0300, Alexey Khoroshilov wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I am trying to get familiar with stable release process, because we
> would like to start testing stable release candidates. But I cannot get
> all the nuances how to get automatically information regarding rc code
> ready to be tested.

You might want to start a new thread and not bury it down in a response
to a specific commit in order to make sure that people see it.

What specifically have you tried that did not work for detecting the -rc
releases?

> Also I wonder how we could automatically detect situations when stable
> release is expected to became diverged from the rc, e.g. like
> [PATCH 5.10 033/306] cpufreq: schedutil: Use kobject release() method to
> free sugov_tunables
> was dropped from 5.10.67 without announcing the 5.10.67-rc2?

Look at the stable queue tree, that has all of the information in it,
right?

thanks,

greg k-h