From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roland@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:19:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216610388.11027.77.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807170908060.2959@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > Should I seek somebody's ack before merging a patch like the one below ?
> >
> > I'm a bit reluctant to merge via the powerpc.git tree some changes to
> > generic files without at least an ack from somebody else :-)
>
> Gaah. Generally we don't, but you're right to ask. The ELF loading keeps
> on accumulating these things, and I'm not sure we have the right process
> for things like this. They're all individually small and insignificant,
> and they are all individually never going away and making the ELF loader
> messier and messier.
Yeah, annoying. Oh well, this one at least is now getting Andrew's
scrutinity...
Cheers,
Ben.
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
roland@redhat.com, Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:19:48 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1216610388.11027.77.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0807170908060.2959@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 09:10 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > Should I seek somebody's ack before merging a patch like the one below ?
> >
> > I'm a bit reluctant to merge via the powerpc.git tree some changes to
> > generic files without at least an ack from somebody else :-)
>
> Gaah. Generally we don't, but you're right to ask. The ELF loading keeps
> on accumulating these things, and I'm not sure we have the right process
> for things like this. They're all individually small and insignificant,
> and they are all individually never going away and making the ELF loader
> messier and messier.
Yeah, annoying. Oh well, this one at least is now getting Andrew's
scrutinity...
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 23:58 AT_BASE_PLATFORM (v2) Nathan Lynch
2008-07-15 23:58 ` [PATCH] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 6:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-17 6:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-17 7:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17 7:09 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17 17:39 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 17:39 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 22:19 ` [PATCH v3] " Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 22:19 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 22:42 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17 22:42 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-17 23:35 ` John Reiser
2008-07-17 23:35 ` John Reiser
2008-07-18 18:28 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-18 18:28 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-18 20:31 ` John Reiser
2008-07-18 20:31 ` John Reiser
2008-07-18 20:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-18 20:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-21 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21 3:24 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21 3:40 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-21 3:40 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-21 9:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21 9:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-21 18:48 ` [PATCH v4] " Nathan Lynch
2008-07-21 18:48 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-22 2:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-22 2:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-17 16:10 ` [PATCH] " Linus Torvalds
2008-07-17 16:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-07-17 19:35 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-17 19:35 ` Nathan Lynch
2008-07-21 3:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-07-21 3:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-07-15 23:58 ` [PATCH] enable AT_BASE_PLATFORM aux vector for powerpc Nathan Lynch
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