Re: [PATCH-v4.1.y 0/8] target: stable backports

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On Sun, 2016-03-06 at 14:17 -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 03/05/2016 08:24 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote:
> > From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Hi Sasha,
> > 
> > The following series contains v4.1.y stable backports for a number
> > of target patches from upstream code, that don't appear in your
> > stable tree.
> > 
> > Also included is a small complile fix specific to v4.1.y code.
> > 
> > Please apply at your earliest convience.
> 
> Thanks Nicholas, I've added both series to their corresponding trees.
> 
> > Btw, I didn't seen any 'failed to apply' messages from you for
> > any of these patches, which is how I tell from Greg-KH when
> > something needs to be manually backported.
> > 
> > Is there a reason for not sending out 'failed to apply' emails..?
> 
> Good point. Since I was only maintaining 3.18 so far, I'd wait for
> maintainers to respond to Greg's mails about failure to apply on either
> 4.1 or 3.14, and just take their backport from there - which did the trick,
> and also reduced the amount of mails maintainers get regarding -stable trees.
> 

Sure, thanks for the extra background.

> 
> I don't have a problem with starting to send "F-T-A" mails as well, but I
> wonder if we can somehow coordinate these mails between myself and Greg
> so we won't send one for each and every kernel version, but rather one
> specifying which stable versions failed to apply? 

So the process bug is when patches apply cleanly to Greg's stable trees,
but do not apply to 4.1.y.

Perhaps a F-T-A email only when the patch applied cleanly to Greg's
(oldest) tree, but not 4.1.y or older..?

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