Re: [PATCH for 3.14.y stable 00/47] Backport fixes of KVM/ARM to 3.14.y stable kernel

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On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:48:06PM +0200, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 08:20:25AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 05:21:51AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>> > > On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 05:39:44PM +0800, Shannon Zhao wrote:
>> > > > Ping?
>> > >
>> > > Large series of backports usually take me a while to get to as they are
>> > > outside of my "normal" workflow.  Usually they take a few months to get
>> > > into the tree, waiting for a "slack time".  I still have a number of
>> > > other series that have yet to be merged that were sent a long time
>> > > before yours.  Please be patient.
>> >
>> > Actually, why aren't these being marked for -stable in the first place?
>>
>> It's mostly my fault for not recognizing that and because I knew many of
>> these wouldn't apply cleanly to stable trees, I didn't add them to
>> -stable.  That was probably a mistake on my part, apologies.
>>
>> > Going back and adding them "by hand" like this is a big pain, especially
>> > when I have to hand-verify each git commit id, as the first one I looked
>> > at is incorrect and now I don't trust any of them in the series.
>>
>> You should be able to trust all of them (Shannon, speak up if that's not
>> true).  This was the *only* one that I modified heavily.
>>
>> >
>> > Please work with the "normal" stable kernel workflow and mark the
>> > patches properly so that you don't have to do this extra work, and I
>> > don't either.
>>
>> Yes, that is indeed the intention.  It has been intense lately and
>> cc'ing -stable was under-prioritized.  As part of realizing we need to
>> be better at this, I went back and tried to rectify our mistakes.
>> Again, apologies.
>>
>> >
>> > Right now I'm going to just dump this whole series from my queue.
>> > Please just give me a series of git commit ids that should be applied to
>> > the 3.14-stable kernel tree, and in what order they should be applied
>> > in.  If any need to be backported differently, please send those as a
>> > separate series, and I will get to them at a different time, as that is
>> > a lot more work having to hand-verify everything.
>> >
>> Really?  I would think you would prefer this series given the above
>> info.  If you still prefer a list of commit IDs, then we'll provide
>> those instead.
>
> My scripts handle a git commit id directly, it's trivial for me to take
> that.  If I have to deal with an email, I have to manually compare it to
> the git commit id, see why it's different, write an angry email
> complaining about the differences, etc. :)
>
> Remember, we work using quilt patch series, not git patches for the
> stable stuff, so I can't take a pull request here, sorry.
>

ok, Shannon will send you a list of commit IDs and I'll re-send the
backported patch with a big fat comment in the commit text.

>> We tried to make things easier for you guys, not the other way around.
>
> Then tag things in the original patches please, that would be the
> easiest thing for everyone involved.
>
Will do for the future, thanks.

-Christoffer
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