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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] MDB Linux Kernel Debugger v4.8 (for kbuild robot testing)
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:42:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1475548970.1923.5.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161004132927.3ff5d0ce@canb.auug.org.au>


On Tue, 2016-10-04 at 13:29 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Joe,

Hi Stephen.

> On Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:47:04 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 18:17 -0600, Jeffrey Merkey wrote:
> > > The following changes since commit c8d2bc9bc39ebea8437fd974fdbc21847bb897a3:
> > > 
> > >   Linux 4.8 (2016-10-02 16:24:33 -0700)
> > > 
> > > are available in the git repository at:
> > > 
> > >   https://github.com/jeffmerkey/linux.git mdb-v4.8
> > > 
> > > for you to fetch changes up to 8e3486647ebcef24e67fc2eebe49f3641a4ffc95:
> > > 
> > >   Add MDB Debugger to Linux Kernel v4.8 (2016-10-02 20:33:55 -0600)  
> > 
> > 
> > Stephen, can this tree be added to -next to get some
> > exposure for the next cycle?
> 
> 
> I don't add trees during the merge window (unless they contain stuff
> for the current merge window and, even then, only rarely).  Also, I
> only take requests from the maintainer/owner of the tree.

No worries, it's really a request for Jeff who doesn't seem
to know the process very well.

Jeff, you really should get this into -next before sending a
pull request to Linus for this large bit of code.

> Has there been much recent discussion/review/testing of this tree?

Not to my knowledge for about 6 months now.

> Is it likely that Linus will merge it?  (Just asking, I haven't been
> following it.)

Dunno.  I'd guess it will _not_ be merged without some time
in -next and a compelling reason to use it.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-04  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-04  0:17 [GIT PULL] MDB Linux Kernel Debugger v4.8 (for kbuild robot testing) Jeffrey Merkey
2016-10-04  1:47 ` Joe Perches
2016-10-04  2:29   ` Stephen Rothwell
2016-10-04  2:42     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-10-04  2:54       ` Jeffrey Merkey
2016-10-04  3:14         ` Jeffrey Merkey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-10-04  0:09 Jeffrey Merkey

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