linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.32 00/62] 2.6.32.68-longterm review

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Date:	Wed, 16 Sep 2015 07:23:21 +0200
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32 00/62] 2.6.32.68-longterm review

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 01:06:31PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-09-13 at 00:56 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > This is the start of the longterm review cycle for the 2.6.32.68 release.
> > All patches will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any
> > issue with these being applied, please let me know. If anyone is a
> > maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a Signed-off-by: line
> > to the patch, please respond with it. If anyone thinks some important
> > patches are missing and should be added prior to the release, please
> > report them quickly with their respective mainline commit IDs.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Sat Sep 19 00:56:05 CEST 2015.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late. If someone
> > wants a bit more time for a deeper review, please let me know.
> > 
> > NOTE: 2.6.32 is approaching end of support. There will probably be one
> > or maybe two other versions issued in the next 3-6 months, and that will
> > be all, at least for me. Adding to this the time it can take to validate
> > and deploy in some environments, it probably makes sense to start to
> > think about switching to another longterm branch. 3.2 and 3.4 are good
> > candidates for those seeking rock-solid versions. Longterm branches and
> > their projected EOLs are listed here :
> > 
> >      https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html
> > 
> > The whole patch series can be found in one patch at :
> >      https://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/longterm-review/patch-2.6.32.68-rc1.gz
> > 
> > The shortlog and diffstat are appended below.
> [...]
> 
> Patches 3 "crypto: testmgr - update LZO compression test vectors",
> 58 "dccp: fix auto-loading of dccp(_probe)",
> 60 "dccp: catch failed request_module call in dccp_probe init",
> 61 "dmaengine: fix missing cnt in ?: in dmatest" and
> 62 "ipv6: Fix return of xfrm6_tunnel_rcv()" have a git cherry-pick
> line in the commit mesage rather than the usual "commit xxx upstream."

Yes indeed, I cherry-picked them after the first build attempts when I
discovered build warnings. I'll add the line by hand.

> Patches 10 and 59 didn't reach me at all, though I can guess from its
> neighbours that 59 is cherry-picked from commit
> d984e6197ecd2babc1537f42dc1e676133005cda upstream.

Yep. Sorry for this, I'm attaching both of them to this e-mail, and
will add the upstream commit line to 59 as well.

Thanks,
Willy


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