Re: Linux 4.8.6

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:26:39PM -0400, Levin, Alexander wrote:

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 06:47:10AM -0600, Greg KH wrote:

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I'm announcing the release of the 4.8.6 kernel.

Hey Greg,

I've put more work into improving my filters to find stable commits upstream.

The list below, taken from v4.8..v4.9-rc2 commits contains mostly commits that aren't tagged for stable, but should probably be there. In this case, it also includes one CVE fix that falls under that description.

Note that I've filtered "prerequisite" commits out to leave only the actual commits we're interested in, so for example - for the first commit on the list you'd need either bbdc070 ("drm/i915: rename macro parameter(ring) to (engine)") or backport those changes yourself. If the list below looks good to you I can send you a pull request with a complete branch.

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This looks good, but it's a lot of patches, what are you using to
determine what "should be here"?  I should have caught up with all of
the patches marked as "stable@", and almost all of the ones that looked
correct that were marked with "fixes:", so is there any way you can
rebase your tree to see what is left?

And yes, a git tree would be great to pull from, that makes it easier to
look at for me.

thanks,

greg k-h