Messages in this thread | | | From | "Luis R. Rodriguez" <> | Date | Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:31:34 -0800 | Subject | Stable extra versions on linux-next.git |
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Stephen,
I'm using linux-next.git to suck out pending stable patches for some releases for 802.11 using compat-wireless. This works great for the first stable release of a kernel, so for example 2.6.36 was released but there were a few stable patches I wanted to suck in for a release for compat-wireless-2.6.36 so I used linux-next.git and used this:
git format-patch --grep=stable@kernel.org -o pending-stable/ v2.6.36.. net/wireless/ net/wireless/ net/mac80211/ net/rfkill/ drivers/net/wireless/ net/bluetooth/ drivers/bluetooth/ drivers/net/atl1c/ drivers/net/atl1e/ drivers/net/atlx/ include/linux/nl80211.h include/linux/rfkill.h include/net/cfg80211.h include/net/mac80211.h include/net/regulatory.h include/net/cfg80211.h
To suck out pending-stable patches so I can apply to my local tarball. I just noticed linux-next.git doesn't suck in the stable extra versions though. The extra version stable updates are available through hpa's linux-2.6-allstable.git tree:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-allstable.git
Now, I have three trees:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-testing.git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-allstable.git
My wireless-testing.git tree is the original fresh clonse, all others are cloned with --reference pointing to the wireless-testing/.git directory. This lets me removes the need to suck in objects which all trees have in common. What it seems I want is to generate a format-patch from one old stable-extra-version to a new linux-next tag.
git format-patch --grep=stable@kernel.org -o pending-stable/ v2.6.36.2..next-20101213
I tried this from my wireless-testing directory but with no luck, it doesn't know about the linux-2.6-allstable.git tags and linux-next.git tags, and my linux-next tree tree is unaware of the extra version stable updates. Any ideas if I can get this working somehow?
Luis
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