Re: [gentoo-kernel] [PATCHES] kernel-2.eclass: Various changes requested by users. + [STABLEREQ?] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.8.7: Any objections against stabilizing?

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 03:19:58PM +0200, Eric F. GARIOUD wrote:
> On Friday 12 April 2013 23:41:05 Tom Wijsman wrote:
>
> > Attached you will find the various changes I plan to apply to
> > kernel-2.eclass
>
> Thank you for these.
>
> > That being said, since 3.8.7 has landed upstream we would like to hear
> > about any issues we don't know about yet that would block stabilization;
> > if we can, I plan to start stabilization in less than two weeks. Unless
> > there are valid reasons for this to be done earlier/later.
>
> 1/ Thank you for telling about your intentions.
>
> 2/ The following is for information. I do not mean that it should block the
> stabilization of the gentoo-sources-3.8.7 and I won't open a bug blocking it.
>
> Up to you to decide if it should actually block it or not :
>
> - ck-sources-3.8.3 users reported to me a regression occurring when booting in
> UEFI mode.
>
> - After analysis, I believe that it is related to a problem reported here :
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/21/461
>
> - A couple of patches have been submitted by Matthew Garrett :
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/19/487
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/26/661
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/26/669
>
> - I have parsed (but possibly not carefully enough) Greg's logs for the 3.8
> branch and the above mentioned patches does not seem having been backported.

They have not because no one has asked me to do so.  Please read the
kernel file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to properly
do this.

thanks,

greg k-h