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On 2015/7/16 0:15, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On 07/15/2015 12:03 PM, Greg KH wrote:
>>>> That would be the ideal setup for me though -- tagged or branched -rc
>>>> candidates of stable releases that I'd be happy to put through the
>>>> build/boot test at my end.
>> kernelci now handles -rc stable releases, so would this just be a
>> duplication of that work?
> 
> I've actually suggested -rc stable cycles for the purpose of getting -rc
> stable kernels into users hands by making it possible for distros to
> ship these as proposed/test kernels by giving them enough time (right now
> the review cycle is only a few days, making it impossible for distros
> to ship them).
> 
> As Guenter and Greg mentioned, there's already a fair amount of testing
> being done on the queue branches,

Now 0day has been testing stable releases on linux-stable.git, but I don't
think it tests queue branches? I asked Fengguang to run 0day on my 3.4.y
stable queue some time ago.

> but there's really no testing being
> done by end users before they receive a final kernel.
>