linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5.10 00/67] 5.10.56-rc1 review

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Date:   Wed, 4 Aug 2021 08:35:01 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Thomas Backlund <tmb@....fi>
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@...x.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        linux@...ck-us.net, shuah@...nel.org, patches@...nelci.org,
        lkft-triage@...ts.linaro.org, jonathanh@...dia.com,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 00/67] 5.10.56-rc1 review

On Wed, Aug 04, 2021 at 09:25:34AM +0300, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Den 03-08-2021 kl. 22:26, skrev Pavel Machek:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 5.10.56 release.
> > > There are 67 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > > let me know.
> > 
> > Not sure what went wrong, but 50 or so patches disappeared from the queue:
> > 
> > 48156f3dce81b215b9d6dd524ea34f7e5e029e6b (origin/queue/5.10) btrfs: fix lost inode on log replay after mix of fsync, rename and inode eviction
> > 474a423936753742c112e265b5481dddd8c02f33 btrfs: fix race causing unnecessary inode logging during link and rename
> > 2fb9fc485825505e31b634b68d4c05e193a224da Revert "drm/i915: Propagate errors on awaiting already signaled fences"
> > b1c92988bfcb7aa46bdf8198541f305c9ff2df25 drm/i915: Revert "drm/i915/gem: Asynchronous cmdparser"
> > 11fe69a17195cf58eff523f26f90de50660d0100 (tag: v5.10.55) Linux 5.10.55
> > 984e93b8e20731f83e453dd056f8a3931b4a66e5 ipv6: ip6_finish_output2: set
> > sk into newly allocated nskb
> > 
> > Best regards,
> 
> Looks like a fallout of switching to use rc-* for current review queues and
> apparently keep queue-* for upcoming stuff
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/

exactly.  We are trying to see if this works to reduce the window of
people getting notified of being added to the queue and a -rc with the
patch in it for some changes.  It also allows us to work while -rcs are
out for review.

Let's see how this works for a bit, we have already had some growing
pains with it :)

greg k-h