On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 02:59:10PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:

Hi folks,

I sometimes see stable release candidates move backwards in time. For example, in the last few days, for v4.4.y.queue:

Dec 08 06:55 v4.4.166 Dec 06 23:36 v4.4.166-57-g4e21c8c946b3 Dec 04 03:31 v4.4.166-21-g9caf29c799ac Dec 04 00:36 v4.4.166-17-g14d854102e8c Dec 03 04:35 v4.4.166-19-gb8c2abe84488 Dec 02 01:07 v4.4.166

How comes?

Because the linux-stable-rc tree is generated based off of the quilt tree and sometimes gets blown away and restarted when I do a release series and push out the other (not 4.4.4) real updates.

And sometimes we delete patches, maybe that is why it went "down" in number of patches by 2?

Normally I would not notice (or comment). However, after v4.4.166 the default configuration for arc had changed, requiring different compilers for defconfig/allnoconfig. I had fixed this up, but now my builds are broken again due to the reverted changes.

Sorry, I'll push out the -rc testing versions now, so that doesn't happen for your systems.

greg k-h