From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Abhijit Karmarkar <awk@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] question regarding the -stable patch queue ?
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:27:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090421032728.GA14175@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88cc3e770904201826odfde9baodcf8c221a0296909@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:26:53PM -0700, Abhijit Karmarkar wrote:
> hi,
>
> i am trying to find if a particular upstream commit [1] will appear in
> the next -stable release of 2.6.28 kernel.
Yes it will.
> i see this commit being marked as "-stable candidate". does that mean
> it will automatically make it to the next stable release?
Yes.
> or should i submit a patch against the latest 2.6.28 stable series, to
> have this patch queued up for next stable release (2.6.28.10). can
> someone please advice?
If you know that the commit that went into Linus's tree will not apply
to the 2.6.28-stable tree, please send an updated version to the
stable@kernel.org address.
> what is the recommend way to do this search ("will upstream patch X be
> included in the next stable release")? so i don't bug this list in
> future with similar queries.
Just ask stable@kernel.org about it. We've been a bit behind on
flushing out the -stable queue (right now my todo-stable mbox contains
399 emails I need to wade through), due to vacations and conferences.
I'm slowly getting there, sorry for the delay.
thanks for your patience,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-21 3:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-21 1:26 Abhijit Karmarkar
2009-04-21 3:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-04-21 17:37 ` [stable] " Abhijit Karmarkar
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