From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933175Ab0BYRyq (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:54:46 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:39041 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933137Ab0BYRyp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:54:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:54:30 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Stephen Rothwell Cc: linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML Subject: Re: linux-next: import of usb series failed Message-ID: <20100225175421.GA23662@kroah.com> References: <20100218105500.898ece5e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100218002144.GA17850@kroah.com> <20100218132221.b15d151f.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100219175218.10025a7a.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100219155343.GA3946@kroah.com> <20100220120207.1d765147.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <20100224021624.GB14159@kroah.com> <20100224150156.d7449bc7.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100224150156.d7449bc7.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 03:01:56PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:16:24 -0800 Greg KH wrote: > > > > Yes, that seems to be the problem here. > > > > I have been doing the BASE tag as a -rc level tag (or rc-gitX tag), can > > I use a SHA1 of Linus's tree to base this against instead? Would that > > work ok with your scripts? > > What ever "git describe" gives you is OK as a BASE. A SHA1 will work as > well, as does a ...-gitx name. Ok, I'll work on changing my scripts to use a SHA1 or at least a more "close" version of what the patches should be against. Sorry for the problem. greg k-h