On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 10:36:27AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
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.
Or tarballs? Why do we generate tarballs (and go through kup)?
git.kernel.org already does it for us.
--
Thanks,
Sasha
