Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:08:25 +0100 | Subject | Re: [stable] [000/474] 2.6.33.8-longterm review | From | John Kacur <> |
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:36 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:21:54AM +0100, John Kacur wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote: >> > Yeah, I know what you are thinking, "What, 2.6.33, are you crazy?" >> > >> > I'd prefer it if you didn't answer that question... >> > >> > Anyway, yes, a .33 kernel release, strange isn't it. >> > >> > Turns out there are a lot of people "stuck" on the 2.6.33 kernel series >> > for a variety of valid reasons, not the least being the Real Time >> > patchset. So, in the copious spare time I have, I've been trying to >> > keep up with the patches that have been applied to the different >> > longterm and stable kernel trees and have been queueing them up for .33 >> > as well. >> > >> > Here's the result of that. A 474 patch series that is bigger than most >> > people ever want to review, or see in their inboxes. Because of that, >> > it is ONLY being sent to the stable-review@kernel.org mailing list. If >> > you want to see the individual patches, look at the git tree of the >> > patch queue, or look at that mailing list. >> > >> > So, if you are using .33, please give this patch a test and let me know >> > if I've messed up anything (hint, I think I did, it's up to you to >> > figure it out, consider it a test to see if anyone actually cares about >> > this kernel version.) >> > >> > If I missed anything that I should have in here, please let me know. >> > >> > Responses should be made by Saturday, March 19, 2011, 21:00:00 UTC. >> > Anything received after that time might be too late. >> > >> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: >> > kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm-review/patch-2.6.33.8-rc1.gz >> > and the diffstat can be found below. >> > >> >> There is no rc1, so I assume >> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm-review/patch-2.6.33.8.bz2 >> is correct? > > Doh, yes, that is correct, I forgot to put -rc in the Makefile, and my > scripts just picked it up and went from there. My fault. > >> Which git tree do I want to use? > > There is no git tree of the expanded tree of patches, just use that > patch on top of 2.6.33.7 please. > > Or you can apply the quilt patchs, all 474 of them, which are included > in the longterm-2.6.33 queue on git.kernel.org >
Thanks, actually that was what I was looking for, the git tree of the quilt patches. Which are easy to script as git commits which makes techniques like bisection easy.
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