Hi Paul, thank you very much! Ralf On 03/14/16 07:31, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > [Re: Old split quilt queues] On 07/03/2016 (Mon 12:15) Ralf Ramsauer wrote: > >> Hi Paul, >> >> On 03/07/16 04:42, Paul Gortmaker wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> On Fri, 29 Jan 2016, Ralf Ramsauer wrote: >>>>> As I expected, inside that repo are a lot of tags for the various -rt >>>>> versions. >>>>> First I thought, RT would make use of rebasing, like: >>>>> - Rebase onto the next kernel version and drop unnecessary commits >>>>> (e.g. patches that went upstream) >>>>> - Do some additional changes >>>>> - Export vA.B.C...vA.B.C-rtX as split quilt queue >>>>> >>>>> But afaict, (at least on the old rt-history), you made a lot of merges >>>>> from rt/* branches and added tags describing the -rt version. Then you >>>>> went on merging against master in order to keep up with upstream. >>>>> >>>>> Given that, how do you create a split quilt queue, that applies against >>>>> an upstream tag? >>>>> >>>>> For example, let's take the first RT Tag of rt-history: v2.6.31-rc6-rt2 >>>>> How would you create a split quilt queue, that applies against v2.6.31-rc6? >>>>> >>>>> (I need to extract all those split quilt queues RT version<->base >>>>> upstream version) >>>> As I said before: That was an experiment whether git is usable as a tool to >>>> manage something complex as rt. It turned out, that it's not. I recreated a >>>> new quilt queue after I abondoned git for rt. >>>> >>>> So creating split queues is going to be a very interesting and tedious >>>> detective work. >>> Just stumbled upon this older discussion now by happenstance. >>> >>> I can say with experience that it is exactly that: tedious. >> I bet! >>> 2.6.33 split queue: >>> >>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rt-users/msg06310.html >>> >>> 2.6.34 split queue: >>> >>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1109036 >> Oh my god, that must have been some agonizing days back in 2011 :-) >> >> I tried the same, but eventually stopped linearizing the patch stack >> after a few hours as there was no real chance of fast success... > Yeah, it is not something you are going to bang out in a couple of > hours. > >>> The repo I referenced in the above doesn't seem to exist anymore >>> on kernel.org - although I don't explicitly recall deleting it. Maybe >>> that was fallout from when kernel.org got hacked? >>> >>> But I am guessing I probably still have a local copy somewhere that >>> could be used to repopulate if anyone really cared about that old stuff. >> If you still have access to those old versions, I'd appreciate if you >> would let me know, anything helps! > I've restored it so that the links in the above post should be working > again as they did five years ago. > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/paulg/rt-patches.git > >> Just out of curiosity: Do you still remember how long it took you to >> linearize those stacks? As I already mentioned, I gave up after a few >> hours .-) > I don't really recall exactly, but feel free to mine into the git repo > to look at the start commit date and go from there. Pretty sure the > unit of measure will be in "days" and not "hours"... > > Paul. > -- > >> Cheers >> Ralf >>> I don't recall if I implicitly made a 2.6.31 series in the march forward to >>> the 2.6.33 but since 31 didn't have merges (aside from stable stuff) >>> that series would probably be reasonably easy to construct. >>> >>> Paul. >>> -- >>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> tglx >>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in >>>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in >>> the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> -- >> Ralf Ramsauer >> PGP: 0x8F10049B >> >> -- Ralf Ramsauer PGP: 0x8F10049B -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
