linux-kernel - Stable -rc git trees and email headers

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Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:16:20 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Cc:	stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Stable -rc git trees and email headers

Hi,

I've finally gotten off my butt and made my quilt trees of patches into
a "semi-proper" git tree to make it easier for people to test them.

I'm now pushing the patches I accept into the stable queues into the git
tree here:
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git

I'll push them out in chunks, as I accept them, and when I do a "real"
-rc release.  Right now the HEAD of each branch will have a -rc1 tag on
them, just because it makes it a bit easier on my end.

Note these branches WILL get rebased.  All the time.  So don't count on
them to contain anything that will stick around, UNTIL a real stable
release happens.

Guenter, I hope this helps with your testing, is there anything that I
can do here to make it easier for you?

Kevin, hopefully this tree also helps you.  I will also be adding some
email headers to my announcements of the -rc releases that you can
parse.  Here is what they are going to look like for an example release:

X-KernelTest-Patch: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.4.14-rc1.gz
X-KernelTest-Tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git
X-KernelTest-Branch: linux-4.4.y
X-KernelTest-Patches: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git
X-KernelTest-Version: 4.4.14-rc1
X-KernelTest-Deadline: 2016-06-20T02:57+00:00

Will those work out?

Fengguang, can you add these to the 0-day bot?  The branches to watch
are all of the currently-active stable trees.  Right now that would be
"linux-3.14.y", "linux-4.4.y", and "linux-4.6.y".  Do I need to tell you
about future branches, or can you just pick up new ones when they show
up?

And can I get announcements if/when the tests pass (or fail) so I know
all is ok?

Hope this helps people out,

thanks,

greg k-h