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From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Backport architecture specific improvements to release branches
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:36:16 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50148656-3a64-bb8b-c76c-81451093c65a@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10492228.4vTCxPXJkl@pinacolada>



On 29/03/2022 16:33, Andreas K. Huettel via Libc-alpha wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
>> We'd like to backport architecture specific improvements to release branches,
>> similar to backports under sysdeps/x86_64/multiarch on users/intel/x86/2.34
>> branch:
> 
> please, if you do this, when possible make some well-defined patch series
> (with a start and end) instead of a continuous trickle of fixes and improvements.
> 
> [When I tried to make a cutoff for the 2.34 patchlevel to be "stabilized" for Gentoo, 
> I was never sure if the series is finished or if another important thing follows
> in a few days...]
> 
> Thanks a lot for your work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Andreas
> 

Specially for release branches, each patch should be self-contained (meaning it builds
and do not trigger any regression).  Are you seeing something differently?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-29 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-29 17:28 H.J. Lu
2022-03-29 17:36 ` Noah Goldstein
2022-03-29 19:02   ` H.J. Lu
2022-03-29 19:19     ` Noah Goldstein
2022-03-29 19:29       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-03-29 21:21         ` H.J. Lu
2022-03-29 19:32 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-03-29 19:33 ` Andreas K. Huettel
2022-03-29 19:36   ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]
2022-03-29 19:40     ` Andreas K. Huettel
2022-04-12 11:49 ` Florian Weimer

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