On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Randy Dunlap <rdun...@infradead.org> wrote: > > Downloading & applying 4.14-rc2 [patch] > <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/rawdiff/?id=v4.14-rc2&id2=v4.13> > > from kernel.org (home page) gives me a file that does not apply cleanly to > v4.13:
Hmm. The rc patches are automatically generated from the git tree these days, so I don't have control over them. It does sound like you might have caught it while it was being generated: > patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line > patch: **** unexpected end of file in patch which would seem to indicate that maybe you just caught it while it was still being generated. But I just tried it myself, and get the same breakage. In fact, the patch it downloads is exactly 50397184 bytes in size. That may not sound like a round number, but it is: it is hex 0x3010000, so it's evenly divisible by 65536. Methinks there's some incorrect flushing of block IO going on. Konstantin? > I also notice that the [pgp] signing is not there. Is that normal? So I don't sign the rc patches any more because I don't generate them (but the final release patches and tar-balls I *do* sign). But maybe they could be signed by some kernel.org key. Again, that would be an automation issue.. Linus