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[2.83.190.205]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-4bb4e2acf81sm96030325e9.14.2026.11.12.15.14.29 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 12 Nov 2026 15:14:30 -0800 (PST) Sender: Julian Braha Message-ID: <2226c85e-2902-4964-858a-2d1603263252@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 23:14:28 +0000 X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Owner: Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] tools: Introduce a kernel configuration checker To: "Ahmed S. Darwish" , Nicolas Schier Cc: Clark Williams , Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , Nathan Chancellor , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Frederic Weisbecker , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jonathan Corbet , John Ogness , Derek Barbosa , =?UTF-8?Q?Zbigniew_J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= , Daan De Meyer , Luca Boccassi , linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20261106091922.7560-1-darwi@linutronix.de> Content-Language: en-US From: Julian Braha In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------K2GKi8S106PfrZNN3W4EREbC" This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --------------K2GKi8S106PfrZNN3W4EREbC Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------onQYsP5IVHvnHSUuO3vsIGv7"; protected-headers="v1"; hp="clear" Message-ID: <2226c85e-2902-4964-858a-2d1603263252@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2026 23:14:28 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/10] tools: Introduce a kernel configuration checker To: "Ahmed S. Darwish" , Nicolas Schier Cc: Clark Williams , Steven Rostedt , Ingo Molnar , Nathan Chancellor , Sebastian Andrzej Siewior , Frederic Weisbecker , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jonathan Corbet , John Ogness , Derek Barbosa , =?UTF-8?Q?Zbigniew_J=C4=99drzejewski-Szmek?= , Daan De Meyer , Luca Boccassi , linux-rt-devel@lists.linux.dev, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20261106091922.7560-1-darwi@linutronix.de> Content-Language: en-US From: Julian Braha In-Reply-To: --------------onQYsP5IVHvnHSUuO3vsIGv7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 11/12/26 12:36, Ahmed S. Darwish wrote: > Hi Nicolas, >=20 > On Wed, 11 Nov 2026, Nicolas Schier wrote: >> Thanks! I know some people who are definitly interested in such a >> config policy checker. >> > Great, thanks! >=20 > I hope this leads to more mainline kernel configuration policies as wel= l. >=20 > On the user-space side, it's one of the reasons I'm versioning the sche= ma > in v2. This way, projects like systemd can ship their own kernel polic= y > file, and that policy will be guaranteed to work with all future versio= ns > of this tool. >=20 > So it's all mainline-first; both kernel upstream and userspace downstre= am. >=20 >> Please prepare a new MAINTAINERS entry in a respin. > Sure. >=20 > Beside a separate entry for the checker itself, I'll also add: >=20 > F: tools/kconfig-audit/policies/preempt_rt.yml >=20 > to the 'Real-time Linux (PREEMPT_RT)' entry. >=20 >> Are you planning to maintain it after inclusion? > Yes, I'll be happy to maintain it. >=20 > Would it be OK if one or two people from the Kconfig side also step-up = as > reviewrs? Julian? Nicolas? Nathan? I will politely decline the official title, but I will (unofficially) watch and review some patches if merged :) - Julian Braha --------------onQYsP5IVHvnHSUuO3vsIGv7-- --------------K2GKi8S106PfrZNN3W4EREbC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="OpenPGP_signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="OpenPGP_signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- wnsEABYIACMWIQT6qjll++tIFxF8TUPElYPCBXNxIAUCavZIVQUDAAAAAAAKCRDElYPCBXNxICgY AQCrg7omkjFSbzIwDbf86DhWih90vS9Sw1cD5XogAdL8JQEAugMEfkQyo0VYrMXEMxzxjaqaD4Dv 40JhZXotRyfJ9A8= =Wy7B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------K2GKi8S106PfrZNN3W4EREbC--