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SubjectRe: Stable maintainer tools
Hi Sasha,

On Mon, Nov 09, 2015 at 10:30:37AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As I've started working on maintaining stable kernels I found that it's nearly
> impossible to assure the correctness of the resulting kernel without a fair
> amount of tools to help with the job.
>
> Every missing commit means that there's an unfix bug, which may be critical.
> Likewise, every commit that wasn't intended to that kernel version, or is
> incorrectly backported means we might be introducing new bugs - some might
> be non obvious to detect.
>
> There is also very little coordination and cooperation between maintainers when
> there should be much more. It's important to audit your tree against other
> maintainers and both fix your tree if necessary and report mistakes to other
> maintainers.
>
> Therefore, to try and create a common toolset for stable tree maintainers
> I've cleaned up and published my scripts, and below I'll describe some of
> my workflows with them. The scripts are built around git, and I'd be happy
> to take in a quilt version in as well if someone wants to donate his scripts.
>
> The code is available at
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sashal/stable-tools.git . Ideas,
> suggestions, bug reports and patches are more than welcome!

(...)

I'll take a look at your work next time I work on a series, this looks
interesting and indeed covers some of the painful cases I'm sometimes
running though.

Thanks for publishing this and explaining how to use it.

Willy



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