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As it stands, this series has zero tags in addition to the SoB >> tags which I assume were its authors. > How does one go about soliciting reviews from your perspective ? Typically I > just submit it in this fashion and whoever is interested reviews it. First, figure out who should ideally review it. Find the maintainers, find who's been sending patches and reviewing in the area lately. Use get_maintainer.pl. Then, ask nicely. :) "Hey x86 maintainers, I've got this series with a pretty nice diffstat in arch/x86. Any chance you could take a look and give an ack if you like what you see?" You can do that in private mails, or in a separate thread, or in a reply to the original series. Or, go hunt folks down on IRC. Just tossing the series over the wall and giving it thoughts and prayers usually isn't the most effective route. BTW, your series looks like a *really* good idea. Please don't let it die. But you might want to trim it down a bit. I'd probably remove the tests and the 'insert-sys-cert' changes to make it more approachable to folks.