From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp.codeaurora.org ([198.145.29.96]:54302 "EHLO smtp.codeaurora.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S940628AbdAIUjz (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2017 15:39:55 -0500 From: Kalle Valo To: Greg KH Cc: Larry Finger , stable@vger.kernel.org, weiyongjun1@huawei.com Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] rtlwifi: Fix kernel oops introduced with commit e49656147359" failed to apply to 4.9-stable tree References: <148370520425473@kroah.com> <87o9zgz47b.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <29741a09-dd16-6fd5-3749-fd57db73f2ff@lwfinger.net> <87vatot7al.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> <20170109200400.GA12033@kroah.com> Date: Mon, 09 Jan 2017 22:39:47 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20170109200400.GA12033@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Mon, 9 Jan 2017 21:04:00 +0100") Message-ID: <87mvf0t1bg.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Greg KH writes: >> >> Larry, are you planning to port this to 4.9? >> > >> > No. Apparently I got confused again and my use of the Cc to stable was >> > incorrect. Commit 49656147359 was not applied until the 4.10 merge. >> > The source of the confusion is related to when the various commits >> > appear in the git log for mainline. The code, however, has the final >> > word. :) >> >> Ah, ok. I'm actually having similar problems and planning to come up >> with a some sort of web page which would show what was the first Linux >> release to contain the commit. (git-describe doesn't tell that and AFAIK >> there is no other git command to show it.) If only I had more free time :) > > git describe --contains Wow, just what I needed. Thanks! $ git describe --contains --match=v* 22b68b93ae25 v4.10-rc1~16^2~8^2 -- Kalle Valo