From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965384Ab3GLUJW (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:09:22 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f182.google.com ([209.85.220.182]:53033 "EHLO mail-vc0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965197Ab3GLUJU (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jul 2013 16:09:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1373658797.17876.119.camel@gandalf.local.home> References: <20130711214830.611455274@linuxfoundation.org> <20130712005023.GB31005@thunk.org> <20130712025745.GA24086@tuxdriver.com> <20130712033430.GA3798@kroah.com> <51E03AEE.5010403@zytor.com> <20130712172836.GA7627@kroah.com> <20130712175718.GA342@thunk.org> <51E0480A.2040905@zytor.com> <51E04AB9.1000003@zytor.com> <1373658797.17876.119.camel@gandalf.local.home> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2013 14:09:19 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] When to push bug fixes to mainline From: Shuah Khan To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 12:44 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> They can be useful for "local" notes (they can be very powerful for >> certain workflows), but they won't be pulled and pushed by me. > > Perhaps notes can be used as that reminder to send to stable. Tag a > commit with a note, and have some automated process that monitors > Linus's tree and when a commit makes it in, automate an email to stable > with said commit. > > -- Steve Including quick sanity tests to see if these patches apply cleanly to stable releases in this automation process will help weed out patches that don't apply as is to stable releases. -- Shuah