[3.5.y.z extended stable] Linux 3.5.7.7

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Tue Mar 5 12:20:40 UTC 2013


On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 06:21:45PM +0100, Arkadiusz Miƛkiewicz wrote:
> On Monday 04 of March 2013, Luis Henriques wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It looks like at some point in the past a non-ascii character has been
> > introduced in the 3.5 stable tree (I haven't actually investigated
> > when/why, but probably a commit had this non-ascii character).
> > 
> > One commit in this release actually removes this non-ascii character and
> > the git patch generator doesn't handle these very well (take a look at
> > your out.patch and you'll see a funny character there).
> 
> Forward the problem to ubuntu gitweb admins maybe, so they can fix it?
> 
> > So, unfortunately it looks like there's no solution other than manually
> > edit your patch to remove these non-ascii characters (or use a proper
> > git tree instead of the git web interface to generate the patch).
> 
> Wanted to avoid doing that. It's used directly as URL to automate fetching and 
> packaging of new 3.5 extended stable kernels here. Using "proper git tree" 
> means manual intervention.
> 
> The other solution would be to publish official patches  8-)

I presume it would be logical for thees to be to v3.5.7?  I think that
is how the official ones on kernel.org work.

-apw




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