Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f52.google.com ([209.85.210.52]:64079 "EHLO mail-pz0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754488Ab2DPU7A (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:59:00 -0400 Received: by dake40 with SMTP id e40so7404113dak.11 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:59:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:58:56 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Felipe Contreras Cc: Stefan Richter , "ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org" , linux-wireless Mailing List , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] [ 00/78] 3.3.2-stable review Message-ID: <20120416205856.GA22298@kroah.com> (sfid-20120416_225906_114402_DE445815) References: <20120412144626.GA14868@kroah.com> <20120413105746.10ffb120@stein> <20120413190819.9469.qmail@stuge.se> <20120416162710.GA24100@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:11:05PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Just one minor correction in this looney email thread: > > > > On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 01:53:22AM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote: > >> v3.3.x on the other hand are *not* stable. They contain patches > >> backported from v3.4, but nobody guarantees they will work. There was > >> no v3.3.1-rc1, so the first time the patches compromising v3.3.1 were > >> generally tested together is in v3.3.1, at which point if somebody > >> finds issues, it's too late; bad patches are *not* going to be removed > >> in v3.3.2. > > > > Of course there was a 3.3.1-rc1, see the linux-kernel archives for the > > announcemen and the individual patches. ?kernel.org has the large patch > > itself if you like that format instead. > > I don't see it here: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=tags > > If you really want people to try it, why not tag it? That would be because I don't keep it in that tree. It is in a quilt tree you can find in the stable-queue.git repo, and I have never tagged -rc1 releases there. No one has ever asked for it before, so in the past 6 years of stable releases, I guess no one ever needed it. ketchup and tarballs seem to work well for others, perhaps you can use that as well (hint, ketchup on top of the linux-stable tree works just fine for testing this.) greg k-h