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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html