early preview of -stable review branches

early preview of -stable review branches

[Milosz Wasilewski]

Hi,

Is there a way to get notifications about patches queued up for the
-rc1 commits in linux-stable-rc.git? I currently use the push that is
associated with email to this list from Greg. But that only gives 48h
window to do the building and testing. If there is a way to get the
patches earlier, that would give more time for testing activities. Any
hints are much appreciated.

Best Regards,
Milosz

Re: early preview of -stable review branches

[Tom Gall]

There are the emails to the list about patches being picked up...

> On Nov 21, 2017, at 2:27 PM, Milosz Wasilewski <milosz.wasilewski@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to get notifications about patches queued up for the
> -rc1 commits in linux-stable-rc.git? I currently use the push that is
> associated with email to this list from Greg. But that only gives 48h
> window to do the building and testing. If there is a way to get the
> patches earlier, that would give more time for testing activities. Any
> hints are much appreciated.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Milosz

Re: early preview of -stable review branches

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 08:27:10PM +0000, Milosz Wasilewski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to get notifications about patches queued up for the
> -rc1 commits in linux-stable-rc.git? I currently use the push that is
> associated with email to this list from Greg. But that only gives 48h
> window to do the building and testing. If there is a way to get the
> patches earlier, that would give more time for testing activities. Any
> hints are much appreciated.

There are multiple ways to get "notifications" about what patches are
applied to the stable queue:
	- email to the stable-commits@vger mailing list.  All patches
	  that I apply to the stable tree are copied there, with the
	  information about what tree they are applied to.
	- watch the stable-queue git tree at:
		https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/
	  This is a set of patches to be applied using quilt to the
	  specific stable tree that is referenced.  There is a series
	  file in each of the queue-X.X/ directory that you should use
	  to know the ordering.
	  This tree is never rebased, you can just "watch" it for
	  updates and create a git tree from it if you want, or just
	  apply the patches directly to a tarball from it (which is what
	  my test system does, and I think what kernel.ci does.)
	- I push out updates to the linux-stable-rc.git tree in
	  "intervals" when I am at a "stopping point":
	  	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/
	  This can be at the end of a day, or when I want to get 0-day
	  testing, or when I am about to do a -rc release.  Note, this
	  tree rebases all the time as it is automatically generated
	  from my quilt tree of patches.  Be aware of that if you use
	  it.  I also forget to push tags to it all the time, as a few
	  developers constantly remind me...

Then of course is the -rc email release announcements and patches
themselves.  The linux-stable-rc tree is updated at that point in time
again with a "fresh" update that should not change until the "real"
release happens, unless there are problems, and then it can be rebased
(as happened for the last -rc release to resolve some build issues.)

So, with all of those ways, is there anything lacking that you all need
to be able to do your testing?

thanks,

greg k-h

Re: early preview of -stable review branches

[Milosz Wasilewski]

On 22 November 2017 at 08:53, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 08:27:10PM +0000, Milosz Wasilewski wrote:
>
> So, with all of those ways, is there anything lacking that you all need
> to be able to do your testing?

It's not the lack of information. It's just timing. I'll try with
stable-queue and see if that works. Thanks for all the input!

milosz