More frequent kexec-tools releases

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Wed Feb 5 20:55:13 EST 2014


On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 08:20:15AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 03:49:06PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 09:12:26AM +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
> > > On 02/04/2014 08:41 PM, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 05:31:51PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > >> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 09:30:47AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > >>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 02:23:04PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > >>>
> > > >>> [..]
> > > >>>>> Simon what do you think? A kexec-tools release every 4 months or every
> > > >>>>> 6 months. Does it make sense to you? 
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Perhaps we could aim for every second kernel release and see how that goes?
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Sounds Good. Kernel releases are roughly 3 months apart. So that would
> > > >>> mean a kexec-tools release roughly around 6 months. This sounds like
> > > >>> a good start.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> So 3.13 was release recently. And last kexec-tools release was in march
> > > >>> 2013. May be it is a good idea to do one release now and then next one
> > > >>> can be after release of kernel 3.15, 3.17 and so on.
> > > >>
> > > >> Yes, I think so too.
> > > > 
> > > > Would any of you object to me doing this with the current state of the
> > > > tree as of fe2c38cc0fc32573 ("Avoid buffer overflow on strncat usage").
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > NO objection.
> > 
> > Done :)
> 
> Thanks Simon. I did git pull but I don't see new tag in my tree. Not sure
> why. 

Could you try again? I messed up the push.



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