On Sat, Jun 18, 2016 at 08:12:34AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On 06/17/2016 10:29 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > Hi Greg, > > > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 08:16:20PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've finally gotten off my butt and made my quilt trees of patches into > > > a "semi-proper" git tree to make it easier for people to test them. > > > > > > I'm now pushing the patches I accept into the stable queues into the git > > > tree here: > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git > > > > > > I'll push them out in chunks, as I accept them, and when I do a "real" > > > -rc release. Right now the HEAD of each branch will have a -rc1 tag on > > > them, just because it makes it a bit easier on my end. > > > > Do you mean you'll tag them when you issue a review ? If so, maybe that > > can help our testers automatically trigger a series of tests when they > > spot a tag that was not tested yet instead of having to monitor emails ? > > If that's the case, I have no issue with pushing a tag when I emit a > > series as well. > > > > I think he means that the topmost patch is similar to the following > (taken from 4.6.y). > > Guenter > > --- > commit f1976bc9e10f2abcea081a9d8bcf05e8633ea6ab > Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Jun 17 19:50:50 2016 -0700 > > Linux 4.6.3-rc1 > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 93068c2..47737f2 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ > VERSION = 4 > PATCHLEVEL = 6 > -SUBLEVEL = 2 > -EXTRAVERSION = > +SUBLEVEL = 3 > +EXTRAVERSION = -rc1 > NAME = Charred Weasel Yeah, right now my scripts add that. Is it worth me not having that there until I do an -rc release? Or is it ok as-is? thanks, greg k-h -- 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