Re: Kernel development cycle

2017-08-09 Thread solitone
On Tuesday, 1 August 2017 14:15:52 CEST solitone wrote: > Let's consider a practical example, the history of patch > "drm/i915/execlists: Reset RING registers upon resume". This patch was > committed 641 commits after version 4.8-rc2: > > $ git describe bafb2f7d4755bf1571bd5e9a03b97f3fc4fe69ae > v

Kernel development cycle

2017-08-01 Thread solitone
Hi, please help me understand some general practices involved in kernel development. Specifically, I'm interested in how patches are included or reverted in different kernel versions. Let's consider a practical example, the history of patch "drm/i915/execlists: Reset RING registers upon resu