Re: [PATCH 3.16 000/294] 3.16.50-rc1 review

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:55:30PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 12:02 AM, Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.16.50 release.
> > There are 294 patches in this series, which will be posted as responses
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> >
> > Responses should be made by Fri Nov 08 18:00:00 UTC 2017.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> >
> > A combined patch relative to 3.16.49 will be posted as an additional
> > response to this.  A shortlog and diffstat can be found below.
> 
> I haven'tr tried building the proposed patches so far, as I was waiting for
> the kernelci builds.
> 
> However, I see that the stable-rc/linux-3.16.y doesn't have the current
> set, it still points to the old 3.16.35 release from last year.

That's because I don't always update the stable-rc tree for other
people's releases.  I can start doing that, just never have in the past.

> I think if you upload the branch to the stable-rc git, that should produce
> the automated build and boot results via email or via the
> https://kernelci.org/job/ interface. Once there are some results
> there, I'll go through the list once more to see what warnings
> and failures remain.

I don't know of a way to have others push to that tree/branch at the
moment :(

I'll go update that branch now...

greg k-h