On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 02:59:10PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > Hi folks, > > I sometimes see stable release candidates move backwards in time. > For example, in the last few days, for v4.4.y.queue: > > Dec 08 06:55 v4.4.166 > Dec 06 23:36 v4.4.166-57-g4e21c8c946b3 > Dec 04 03:31 v4.4.166-21-g9caf29c799ac > Dec 04 00:36 v4.4.166-17-g14d854102e8c > Dec 03 04:35 v4.4.166-19-gb8c2abe84488 > Dec 02 01:07 v4.4.166 > > How comes? Because the linux-stable-rc tree is generated based off of the quilt tree and sometimes gets blown away and restarted when I do a release series and push out the other (not 4.4.4) real updates. And sometimes we delete patches, maybe that is why it went "down" in number of patches by 2? > Normally I would not notice (or comment). However, after > v4.4.166 the default configuration for arc had changed, > requiring different compilers for defconfig/allnoconfig. > I had fixed this up, but now my builds are broken again > due to the reverted changes. Sorry, I'll push out the -rc testing versions now, so that doesn't happen for your systems. greg k-h
