Re: Linux 4.8.6

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:26:39PM -0400, Levin, Alexander wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 06:47:10AM -0600, Greg KH wrote:
> > I'm announcing the release of the 4.8.6 kernel.
> 
> Hey Greg,
> 
> I've put more work into improving my filters to find stable commits upstream.
> 
> The list below, taken from v4.8..v4.9-rc2 commits contains mostly commits that aren't tagged for stable, but should probably be there. In this case, it also includes one CVE fix that falls under that description.
> 
> Note that I've filtered "prerequisite" commits out to leave only the actual commits we're interested in, so for example - for the first commit on the list you'd need either bbdc070 ("drm/i915: rename macro parameter(ring) to (engine)") or backport those changes yourself. If the list below looks good to you I can send you a pull request with a complete branch.

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This looks good, but it's a lot of patches, what are you using to
determine what "should be here"?  I should have caught up with all of
the patches marked as "stable@", and almost all of the ones that looked
correct that were marked with "fixes:", so is there any way you can
rebase your tree to see what is left?

And yes, a git tree would be great to pull from, that makes it easier to
look at for me.

thanks,

greg k-h