From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Metcalf Subject: Re: [update] Re: new execve/kernel_thread design Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 21:40:59 -0500 Message-ID: <50C2A8BB.4010707@tilera.com> References: <20121016223508.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20121026183107.GQ2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20121207222358.GB4939@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from usmamail.tilera.com ([12.216.194.151]:20443 "EHLO USMAMAIL.TILERA.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757657Ab2LHClE (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2012 21:41:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20121207222358.GB4939@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Al Viro Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Catalin Marinas , Haavard Skinnemoen , Mike Frysinger , Jesper Nilsson , David Howells , Tony Luck , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Hirokazu Takata , Geert Uytterhoeven , Michal Simek , Jonas Bonn , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Richard Kuo , Martin Schwidefsky , Lennox Wu , "David S. Miller" , Paul Mundt , Chris Zankel , Yoshinori Sato , Guan Xuetao On 12/7/2012 5:23 PM, Al Viro wrote: > Current situation: > > * most of the architectures are OK - alpha arm arm64 c6x frv hexagon ia64 m68k > microblaze mips openrisc parisc sparc s390 tile um unicore32 x86 xtensa > > * powerpc *still* awaits an ACK from maintainers; no reports of any breakage > on linux-next and seems to be doing fine on my tests. > > * sh - still nothing from Paul; I'm going to assume that what we have in > linux-next is OK > > * mn10300 - untested, AFAIK > * avr32, blackfin, cris, h8300, score - maintainers seem to be MIA > * m32r - maintainer is not MIA, but I'm not sure if anyone, including > maintainer, has working m32r test boxen anymore... Anyway, not a word on > m32r patches in that pile. > > Folks, this is the final warning - I *will* send a pull request on the > stuff currently in linux-next as soon as the merge window opens. It had > been sitting there for a long time by now and you've all been Cc'd on > that thread all along. IMHO, Al has done a great job reaching out to the architecture maintainers with this round of changes. I think it should be a model for any kind of similar tree-wide work. -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from usmamail.tilera.com ([12.216.194.151]:20443 "EHLO USMAMAIL.TILERA.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757657Ab2LHClE (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Dec 2012 21:41:04 -0500 Message-ID: <50C2A8BB.4010707@tilera.com> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 21:40:59 -0500 From: Chris Metcalf MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [update] Re: new execve/kernel_thread design References: <20121016223508.GR2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20121026183107.GQ2616@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20121207222358.GB4939@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121207222358.GB4939@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Al Viro Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Catalin Marinas , Haavard Skinnemoen , Mike Frysinger , Jesper Nilsson , David Howells , Tony Luck , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Hirokazu Takata , Geert Uytterhoeven , Michal Simek , Jonas Bonn , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Richard Kuo , Martin Schwidefsky , Lennox Wu , "David S. Miller" , Paul Mundt , Chris Zankel , Yoshinori Sato , Guan Xuetao Message-ID: <20121208024059.IBnNjK8M6V1-Qe2lkocvFAM3s_4y09CpPbO8ToFaUVQ@z> On 12/7/2012 5:23 PM, Al Viro wrote: > Current situation: > > * most of the architectures are OK - alpha arm arm64 c6x frv hexagon ia64 m68k > microblaze mips openrisc parisc sparc s390 tile um unicore32 x86 xtensa > > * powerpc *still* awaits an ACK from maintainers; no reports of any breakage > on linux-next and seems to be doing fine on my tests. > > * sh - still nothing from Paul; I'm going to assume that what we have in > linux-next is OK > > * mn10300 - untested, AFAIK > * avr32, blackfin, cris, h8300, score - maintainers seem to be MIA > * m32r - maintainer is not MIA, but I'm not sure if anyone, including > maintainer, has working m32r test boxen anymore... Anyway, not a word on > m32r patches in that pile. > > Folks, this is the final warning - I *will* send a pull request on the > stuff currently in linux-next as soon as the merge window opens. It had > been sitting there for a long time by now and you've all been Cc'd on > that thread all along. IMHO, Al has done a great job reaching out to the architecture maintainers with this round of changes. I think it should be a model for any kind of similar tree-wide work. -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com