On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:17:43PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 04:11:17PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > It would be even better if you could find the time to push -rc releases > > into the stable repository before you accept patches into a stable branch. > > What do you mean by this? > > The git tree? I could do that, but when I have to drop a patch, it > would cause a mess if I had to always go forwards. > That is not what I mean. I referred to the master branch of the stable repository, which you normally update to the most recent -rc when you publish a new -stable release. > I could do branches for -rc releases, that end up as the > "end-of-the-line", and I create the next .y release on top of the > previous one, not the -rc release. > I would not ask for creating any new branches. The existing ones are good enough. > That's kind of what I do "internally" when I create the -rc releases in > the first place, but I just delete those throw-away trees, and never > push them publicly anywhere. > > Does it really help anyone to do this, except for some automated > testing? Doesn't the -rc patch work good enough for that? > > > I am now running my test suite on stable/master, so that would give it > > some time to catch new problems before they make their way into a stable > > branch. > > I don't understand what you mean here. > The master branch of linux-stable.git on kernel.org currently points to v3.11-rc5. All I asked for is to update it to the latest -rc prior to accepting patches from this -rc into a stable release. I am running my test suite on linux-stable:master to have a reference and comparison against the various -stable branches. As soon as you update the master branch of linux-stable.git (eg after you push v3.11-rc6 into it), the test suite will automatically run on it. Obviously I could track linux-kernel.git itself instead, but there is much more activity on it and I am really only interested in the most recent tagged version. Hope that describes it better. Guenter -- 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