linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question

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Date:	Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:20:32 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [RFC] new -stable tag variant, Git workflow question


* Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:

> > I've attached the full commit below. The prereq commits are not 
> > uptream yet, and they dont carry a -stable backporting tag as the 
> > -stable relevance was not anticipated at that point yet. They will 
> > all be upstream in the next merge window when Linus merges the 
> > relevant tree - and then all these tags become visible to the 
> > -stable team's scripts.
> > 
> > What do you think about this new -stable tagging variant? To me it 
> > looks quite intuitive, less error-prone and it is more informative 
> > as well. Furthermore, it gives us some freedom to mark commits as 
> > backport candidates later on. I kept them oneliners for the purpose 
> > of making them all self-sufficient tags.
> 
> I agree.

Ok - thanks for the confirmation - i've pushed out the first such 
commit. (Let me know if there's any problem with it down the line - it 
will be a few weeks, in the next merge window, until it truly 
'activates' for -stable.)

	Ingo
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