Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. > > Note these branches WILL get rebased. All the time. So don't count on > them to contain anything that will stick around, UNTIL a real stable > release happens. > > Guenter, I hope this helps with your testing, is there anything that I > can do here to make it easier for you? > > Kevin, hopefully this tree also helps you. I will also be adding some > email headers to my announcements of the -rc releases that you can > parse. Here is what they are going to look like for an example release: > > X-KernelTest-Patch: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.14-rc1.gz > X-KernelTest-Tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git > X-KernelTest-Branch: linux-4.4.y > X-KernelTest-Patches: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git > X-KernelTest-Version: 4.4.14-rc1 > X-KernelTest-Deadline: 2016-06-20T02:57+00:00 > > Will those work out? Yes, those look great. We'll start swtiching the kernelci.org bot over to this tree and let you know if there's anything else we need. > Fengguang, can you add these to the 0-day bot? The branches to watch > are all of the currently-active stable trees. Right now that would be > "linux-3.14.y", "linux-4.4.y", and "linux-4.6.y". Do I need to tell you > about future branches, or can you just pick up new ones when they show > up? > > And can I get announcements if/when the tests pass (or fail) so I know > all is ok? > > Hope this helps people out, Yes, it does. Thanks! Kevin -- 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