Nouveau - Dec 2015 - [PATCH] drm/nouveau: Fix pre-nv50 pageflip events (v4)

On 15.12.2015 12:21, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 15 December 2015 at 11:11, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 
>>
>> Apparently not reached @stable (stable: 4.3.3 2015-12-15),
>> so here's one more time.
>>
> It has reached 4.4-rcX and will get picked by the stable maintainer
> (Greg?) in due time. Meanwhile you can ask your distro maintainers to
> apply it locally until we get an official release that includes it.
> 
> -Emil
> 
It is all but unknown ;)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281368

Emil, the point is - if it has -not- reached stable at vger.kernel.org, how can
it be applied, in the first place.

Aye

On 15 December 2015 at 15:01, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 15.12.2015 12:21, Emil Velikov wrote:
>> On 15 December 2015 at 11:11, poma <pomidorabelisima at
gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Apparently not reached @stable (stable: 4.3.3 2015-12-15),
>>> so here's one more time.
>>>
>> It has reached 4.4-rcX and will get picked by the stable maintainer
>> (Greg?) in due time. Meanwhile you can ask your distro maintainers to
>> apply it locally until we get an official release that includes it.
>>
>> -Emil
>>
>
> It is all but unknown ;)
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281368
>
> Emil, the point is - if it has -not- reached stable at vger.kernel.org, how
can it be applied, in the first place.
>
The same way many others do ? I'd imagine there is a tool/script which
parses through the development tree, which would explain why (many?)
people explicitly suppress git from sending an email yet things still
work. There is extra information in the documentation [1] if you're
interested.

-Emil
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 03:17:21PM +0000, Emil Velikov
wrote:
> On 15 December 2015 at 15:01, poma <pomidorabelisima at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On 15.12.2015 12:21, Emil Velikov wrote:
> >> On 15 December 2015 at 11:11, poma <pomidorabelisima at
gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Apparently not reached @stable (stable: 4.3.3 2015-12-15),
> >>> so here's one more time.
> >>>
> >> It has reached 4.4-rcX and will get picked by the stable
maintainer
> >> (Greg?) in due time. Meanwhile you can ask your distro maintainers
to
> >> apply it locally until we get an official release that includes
it.
> >>
> >> -Emil
> >>
> >
> > It is all but unknown ;)
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1281368
> >
> > Emil, the point is - if it has -not- reached stable at
vger.kernel.org, how can it be applied, in the first place.
> >
> The same way many others do ? I'd imagine there is a tool/script which
> parses through the development tree, which would explain why (many?)
> people explicitly suppress git from sending an email yet things still
> work. There is extra information in the documentation [1] if you're
> interested.
Yes, this is in the queue, along with 276 other patches that I need to
apply as well.  The backlog is large this time of year, sorry.

greg k-h