On 01/13/2014 08:28 AM, Li Zefan wrote: > We have several long-term and extended stable kernels, and it's possible > that a bug fix is in some stable versions but is missing in some other > versions, so I've written a script to find out those fixes. > > Take 3.4.xx and 3.2.xx for example. If a bug fix was merged into upstream > kernel after 3.4, and then it was backported to 3.2.xx, then it probably > needs to be backported to 3.4.xx. > > The result is, there're ~430 bug fixes in 3.2.xx that probably need to be > backported to 3.4.xx. Given there're about 4500 commits in 3.2.xx, that > is ~10%, which is quite a big number for stable kernels. > > We (our team in Huawei) are going to go through the whole list to filter > out fixes that're applicable for 3.4.xx. > > I've attached the lists for 3.4 and 3.10. > > If a commit ID appears more than once in changelogs, it's possible that's > because the commit was reverted later, so I tagged this kind of commits > in the lists. > Hello Zefan, Thanks for share, great job, it's very useful info for other companies who build their kernel base on long term kernel like here in ProfitBricks. I'm a little confused about the column occurrences, what do the 2 numbers mean, eg : 8c4f3c3fa968 874d3954a35c 2 1 the first is the occurrences in upstream and second for the occurrence in 3.2.xx right? Regards, Jack -- 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