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

[Kevin Hilman]

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 5:35 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:48 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:40:36PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2017-11-09 at 13:21 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> > On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 1:08 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > > On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 12:55:30PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> > > > 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...
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> > With the arm-soc tree, we simply have a shared group-id on
>>> > gitolite.kernel.org and everyone in that group can push to it.
>>> >
>>> > If that is the only thing you need, it should be trivial to let Ben
>>> > and Sasha push to /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/*.git as well,
>>> > I'm sure helpdesk@xxxxxxxxxx can arrange that. Of course if you are
>>> > worried about having multiple accounts with write access to all the
>>> > branches, then that wouldn't be enough.
>>>
>>> I think I'd rather send a pull request to Greg at the start of the
>>> review period.
>>
>> That works for me!
>
> We just discussed this on the #kernelci IRC channel. Since kernelci
> has a whitelist of branches and 3.16 isn't currently on it, how about
> just adding a different git tree for Ben's 3.2-rc and 3.16-rc releases?

We are currently reaching the limits of our current build capacity, so
want to understand the users before adding more trees.

That being said, it seems Ben is now pushing to Greg's stable-rc, so
we can pretty easily add linux-3.16.y to our list of stable-rc
branches if there is enough interest.  Also, we would much prefer
monitoring a git branch, since kernelci does not currently deal with
git + quilt (and we have no time, and less motivation to add it) :)

Kevin