From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87DC6C433DB for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2021 13:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C4A564F09 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2021 13:25:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S241287AbhCDNZI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2021 08:25:08 -0500 Received: from mail-wm1-f53.google.com ([209.85.128.53]:53422 "EHLO mail-wm1-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S241281AbhCDNYh (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2021 08:24:37 -0500 Received: by mail-wm1-f53.google.com with SMTP id e23so8025098wmh.3 for ; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 05:24:21 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=DoVnS8k4RQkogRp+7VshFY8vize0VBYuT9zkrZVLJkc=; b=EXWUwy8x/cPB3VSZzM64rsyIEJSUJSvGF2ylK74H+R0cj0c+G4gyRREEB7tIE+jvoh 1oPhRQU8+FFaJqC+OGyXGQIT/Bqa85/auwLRtfMjK34xhfHGEfl4UwGvhaIeZE6KSI5m ie5abWmEVSvwxhf89e9BCu3aNDyKov4ubOFir33L2AaHFx2ZhtxfrEwjh9ffqw+GxLBe RaymseJ2uBlPKVatqmHcjnmrv6Qi6EFd+31RCR+AdTu/sB29VdmQ2T6qdWccSwhA/5uj c2wDvIuvKW4xVXbiNmD1M4njcq7ahTESB6JyzTEdX+NnWvIru7SFEXSov7FQwiq/efnk fIwQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533Vds8/zGnlJHLipJMgUT2JvJFSuViqgWghuW0FB0P9mD8Kjrdn jFLhaR8Mbfqma9fgY27MtNX8+YqCh+0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJx/G5yN/NV+CBY6nEY9j/S3wF4hfe7w67ailvszUrbB+NcQY6WccO4PEOwhJn4Y8gjWuQA8LA== X-Received: by 2002:a05:600c:2109:: with SMTP id u9mr3942271wml.44.1614864235373; Thu, 04 Mar 2021 05:23:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.116] (adsl-84-226-167-205.adslplus.ch. [84.226.167.205]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 21sm10037848wme.6.2021.03.04.05.23.54 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 04 Mar 2021 05:23:54 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: A note on the 5.12-rc1 tag To: Pavel Machek , Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <20210304124314.GA9979@duo.ucw.cz> From: Krzysztof Kozlowski Message-ID: Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 14:23:54 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210304124314.GA9979@duo.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/03/2021 13:43, Pavel Machek wrote: >> One additional reason for this note is that I want to not just warn >> people to not run this if you have a swapfile - even if you are >> personally not impacted (like I am, and probably most people are - >> swap partitions all around) - I want to make sure that nobody starts >> new topic branches using that 5.12-rc1 tag. I know a few developers >> tend to go "Ok, rc1 is out, I got all my development work into this >> merge window, I will now fast-forward to rc1 and use that as a base >> for the next release". Don't do it this time. It may work perfectly >> well for you because you have the common partition setup, but it can >> end up being a horrible base for anybody else that might end up >> bisecting into that area. > > Would it make sense to do a -rc2, now, so new topic branches can be > started on that one? +1 to this idea. I already applied few patches, well, on top of v5.12-rc1, so would be nice if I stop this sooner than later. Best regards, Krzysztof