On Fri, 2025-05-09 at 11:50 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>
> What's interessting/very strange strange about this time-travel stuff:
> > commit 0b8b2668f998 ("um: insert scheduler ticks when userspace does not
> > yield")
>
> $ git describe 0b8b2668f998
> => v6.12-rc2-43-g0b8b2668f998
> (from what I know this is 43 patches on top of v6.12-rc2 as per the man page:
> "The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit. [...]
> it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the
> tagged
> object and the abbreviated object name of the most recent commit."
>
> But it was merged as part of: uml-for-linus-6.13-rc1 :
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1155823186.11802667.1732921581257.javamail.zim...@nod.at/
That's not all that implausible - UML maintenance is slow and we all
have a lot of things to do... so chances are we just didn't send a pull
request for 6.12-rc even though the tree was already there. I'm trying
to improve that but it's not really a focus for any of us.
johannes
