Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Dec 2010 19:45:54 -0500 | From | Paul Gortmaker <> | Subject | Re: Announcement: Plans for v2.6.34-longterm |
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[Re: Announcement: Plans for v2.6.34-longterm] On 04/12/2010 (Sat 09:27) Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:07:19PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > > Firstly, I'd like to thank Greg for all the past work he's done on > > juggling all these different stable releases - many people have > > reaped the benefits of them for quite some time, and it only makes > > sense to spread the loading around as it has grown significantly. > > > > With that in mind, it is our intention to also maintain a 2.6.34 > > longterm tree. Jason and I work at Wind River, which already has > > released products based on v2.6.34, and as such it only makes sense > > to have a public long-term tree that others who are also based on > > 2.6.34 can make use of. > > > > I've already done an end-to-end audit of the current 2.6.32 longterm > > stable release, and used the list of these already "approved for stable" > > patches on v2.6.32 to identify 260 upstream commits that are applicable, > > but not yet present in the last 2.6.34.7 stable release. > > > > A candidate tree for 2.6.34.8 with the above 260 commits applied to > > it is available now for review/testing at: > > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux-2.6.34.y.git > > That's great, but you really don't want to keep the patches in a > "combined" git tree like this for development and review. What happens > if someone says "patch 121 needs to be removed"? > > I recommend using quilt like we have been for the stable tree for the > past 5+ years as it handles situations like this very well.
It was my intention to also create a git repo of patches, but since I've found myself using quilt less and less in favour of just using git directly, it wasn't a natural byproduct of my work so far.
Fortunately its easy to dump patches out into a repo of patches suitable for quilt, so there is one now, and it makes a good place to put that audit data relating to this that I'd sent you a couple weeks ago.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> Other than that, good luck with this, it's a lot of work :)
Thanks!
Paul.
> > greg k-h
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