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

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:02:14 -0700
From:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>,
	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Milo Casagrande <milo.casagrande@...aro.org>,
	Tyler Baker <tyler.baker@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: Stable -rc git trees and email headers

Hi Greg,

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:

[...]

> 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?

Can you add one more:  X-KernelTest-PatchCount ?

Which would include the total number of patches in the series/branch?
This will help us determine uniqueness for a given branch.

Thanks,

Kevin