Re: [PATCH 5.2 000/135] 5.2.10-stable review

[Sasha Levin]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 02:42:48AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 2019-08-22, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:05:27AM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > > On 2019-08-22, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 01:05:56PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> [...]
> > > It might be down to kernel.org mirroring, but the patch file doesn't
> > > seem to be available yet (404), both in the wrong location listed
> > > above - and the expected one under
> > >
> > > 	https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.2.10-rc1.gz
> [...]
> > Ah, no, it's not a mirroring problem, Sasha and I didn't know if anyone
> > was actually using the patch files anymore, so it was simpler to do a
> > release without them to see what happens. :)
> >
> > Do you rely on these, or can you use the -rc git tree or the quilt
> > series?  If you do rely on them, we will work to fix this, it just
> > involves some scripting that we didn't get done this morning.
>
> "Rely" is a strong word, I can adapt if they're going away, but
> I've been using them so far, as in (slightly simplified):
>
> $ cd patches/upstream/
> $ wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/patch-5.2.9.xz
> $ xz -d patch-5.2.9.xz
> $ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/stable-review/patch-5.2.10-rc1.gz
> $ gunzip patch-5.2.10-rc1.gz
> $ vim ../series
> $ quilt ...
>
> I can switch to importing the quilt queue with some sed magic (and I
> already do that, if interesting or just a larger amounts of patches are
> queuing up for more than a day or two), but using the -rc patches has
> been convenient in that semi-manual workflow, also to make sure to really
> get and test the formal -rc patch, rather than something inbetween.

An easy way to generate a patch is to just use the git.kernel.org web
interface. A patch for 5.2.10-rc1 would be:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git/patch/?id=linux-5.2.y&id2=v5.2.9

Personally this patch upload story sounded to me like a pre-git era
artifact...

Thanks for the testing effort!

--
Thanks,
Sasha