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From:	Andrew Udvare <audvare@×××××.com>
To:	gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-user] Tracking kernel patches
Date:	Sun, 26 May 2019 17:39:13
Message-Id:	`69A926B2-6681-4686-8D6A-F7469C8584F0@gmail.com`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-user] Tracking kernel patches by Adam Carter

1	> On 2019-05-25, at 20:39, Adam Carter <adamcarter3@×××××.com> wrote:
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3	> I need to use this patch;
4	> https://marc.info/?l=linux-block&m=155772952511144&w=2
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6	> Is there some way to track its progress toward inclusion in the stable release?
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8	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/09324d32d2a0843e66652a087da6f77924358e62#diff-a3fadbb3daba4dd336ddc1846df3e6c8
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10	Can also look at kernel.org.
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12	I just dealt with this with the TRIM error and its patch.
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14	The easiest way is to look at the patch file(s) being changed, and then go to a web mirror to check that file's history.
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16	Example:
17	https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2019-May/msg00104.html
18	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master/drivers/md/dm.c
19	https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/51b86f9a8d1c4bb4e3862ee4b4c5f46072f7520d#diff-309bcac7077137714d954d0a75c854d1
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21	If you go to the diff for 5.1.4-5.1.5 (GitHub does not have these tags) you can see this patch was included in the release:
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23	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/diff/?id=v5.1.5&id2=v5.1.4&context=3&ignorews=0&dt=0
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25	--
26	Andrew Udvare

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