Re: [PATCH v7 00/25] Unify vDSOs across more architectures

Vincenzo Frascino
2019-06-24T16:20:30Z

On 24/06/2019 15:49, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 03:23:46PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>> Vincenzo,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>>>
>>>> I did not merge the ARM and MIPS parts as they lack any form of
>>>> acknowlegment from their maintainers. Please talk to those folks. If they
>>>> ack/review the changes then I can pick them up and they go into 5.3 or they
>>>> have to go in a later cycle. Nevertheless it was well worth the trouble to
>>>> have those conversions done to confirm that the new common library fits a
>>>> bunch of different architectures.
>>>
>>> I talked to Russell King and he suggested to file the ARM parts into his
>>> patch system and he'll pick them up after 5.3-rc1.
>>>
>>> https://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/
>>>
>>> I paged out how to deal with it, but you'll surely manage :)
>>
>> Easy way: ask git to add the "KernelVersion" tag as a header to the
>> email using --add-header to e.g. git format-patch, and just mail them
>> to patches@armlinux.org.uk
>
> Although I haven't send patches to Russell in a while, I still have a
> git alias in my .gitconfig (only works with one patch at a time IIRC,
> sending multiple patches may arrive in a different order):
>
> [alias]
> send-rmk-email = !git send-email --add-header=\"KernelVersion: $(git describe --abbrev=0)\" --no-thread --suppress-cc=all --to="patches@arm.linux.org.uk"
>

Thanks to all for the hints and the support. I will send the patches to Russel
as agreed.

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Regards,
Vincenzo