Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:37:41 -0700 | Subject | Re: [stable] question regarding the -stable patch queue ? | From | Abhijit Karmarkar <> |
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:26:53PM -0700, Abhijit Karmarkar wrote: >> hi, >> >> i am trying to find if a particular upstream commit [1] will appear in >> the next -stable release of 2.6.28 kernel. > > Yes it will.
nice.
> >> i see this commit being marked as "-stable candidate". does that mean >> it will automatically make it to the next stable release? > > Yes. >
good to know that.
>> or should i submit a patch against the latest 2.6.28 stable series, to >> have this patch queued up for next stable release (2.6.28.10). can >> someone please advice? > > If you know that the commit that went into Linus's tree will not apply > to the 2.6.28-stable tree, please send an updated version to the > stable@kernel.org address. >
this particular upstream commit (01522df346f846906eaf6ca57148641476209909) applies cleanly to 2.6.28-stable and fixes the panic.
>> what is the recommend way to do this search ("will upstream patch X be >> included in the next stable release")? so i don't bug this list in >> future with similar queries. > > Just ask stable@kernel.org about it. We've been a bit behind on > flushing out the -stable queue (right now my todo-stable mbox contains > 399 emails I need to wade through), due to vacations and conferences. > I'm slowly getting there, sorry for the delay. >
no worries. thanks for maintaining the -stable series :-) looking forward to 28.10
thanks abhijit
> thanks for your patience, > > greg k-h > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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