On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 02:28:53AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 02:42:48AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > > Hi > > > > On 2019-08-22, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:05:27AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > > > > On 2019-08-22, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 01:05:56PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > > [...] > > > > It might be down to kernel.org mirroring, but the patch file doesn't > > > > seem to be available yet (404), both in the wrong location listed > > > > above - and the expected one under > > > > > > > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.2.10-rc1.gz > > [...] > > > Ah, no, it's not a mirroring problem, Sasha and I didn't know if anyone > > > was actually using the patch files anymore, so it was simpler to do a > > > release without them to see what happens. :) > > > > > > Do you rely on these, or can you use the -rc git tree or the quilt > > > series? If you do rely on them, we will work to fix this, it just > > > involves some scripting that we didn't get done this morning. > > > > "Rely" is a strong word, I can adapt if they're going away, but > > I've been using them so far, as in (slightly simplified): > > > > $ cd patches/upstream/ > > $ wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/patch-5.2.9.xz > > $ xz -d patch-5.2.9.xz > > $ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.2.10-rc1.gz > > $ gunzip patch-5.2.10-rc1.gz > > $ vim ../series > > $ quilt ... > > > > I can switch to importing the quilt queue with some sed magic (and I > > already do that, if interesting or just a larger amounts of patches are > > queuing up for more than a day or two), but using the -rc patches has > > been convenient in that semi-manual workflow, also to make sure to really > > get and test the formal -rc patch, rather than something inbetween. > > An easy way to generate a patch is to just use the git.kernel.org web > interface. A patch for 5.2.10-rc1 would be: > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-5.2.y&id2=v5.2.9 > > Personally this patch upload story sounded to me like a pre-git era > artifact... Given that we no longer do patches for Linus's -rc releases for the past few years, maybe it is time to move to do the same for the stable releases to be consistent. thanks, greg k-h
