Re: [PATCH v4] kallsyms: add names of built-in modules

Jessica Yu
2019-12-19T09:43:25Z

+++ Steven Rostedt [18/12/19 22:29 -0500]:
>On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 15:55:18 -0800
>Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Ping.
>
>Couple of notes:
>
>1) this affects code that doesn't really have a maintainer. I could
>take it in my tree, but I would like to have acks from other
>maintainers. Perhaps Jessica Yu (Module maintainer), and probably one
>from Linus himself.

I hardly look through scripts/, so this patch would definitely need
Masahiro's (for all things kbuild) ack as well.

>2) Do not send new versions of a patch as a reply to the old version. I
>and many other maintainers sort our inbox by threads, and I look at the
>top of the thread for patches. That is, if there's another version of a
>patch that is a reply to a previous version, it is basically off my
>radar, unless I happen to notice it by chance (which I did with this
>email).
>
>You can send your v4 patch again, but please send it as its own thread,
>that way it will be on the radar of other maintainers. Hopefully we can
>get some acks on this as well.

Also, why wasn't this patch sent to lkml? At least I don't see it on
cc. If you resend v4, please send it there as well so it can get more
coverage.

Thanks,

Jessica