From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161126AbWASA6E (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:58:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161127AbWASA6E (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:58:04 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.188]:5373 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161126AbWASA6C convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:58:02 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: spereira@tusc.com.au Subject: Re: 32 bit (socket layer) ioctl emulation for 64 bit kernels Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:57:37 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / =?utf-8?q?=E5=90=89=E8=97=A4=E8=8B=B1=E6=98=8E?= , acme@ghostprotocols.net, ak@muc.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, pereira.shaun@gmail.com, Arnd Bergmann References: <1137122079.5589.34.camel@spereira05.tusc.com.au> <200601170115.07019.arnd@arndb.de> <1137567396.14130.2.camel@spereira05.tusc.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1137567396.14130.2.camel@spereira05.tusc.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601190157.38277.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de login:bf0b512fe2ff06b96d9695102898be39 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Wednesday 18 January 2006 07:56 schrieb Shaun Pereira: >  Assuming you are happy with the state of the patches, is there anyway > for me to know if they will become a part of the next release? I don't see any more technical problems with your patches. You still need to proper patch description and Signed-off-by: line like it is described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches. You can add an 'Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann ' line to the four patches you posted last if you like. > Usually submitted/reviewed patches to netdev does not not always > guarantee they will be acccepted/signed-off. > Any advice would be useful I'm not that familiar with the process for non-driver patches for netdev (nor for device drivers as it seems ;-)), but my understanding is that you should address those to Jeff Garzik as well, asking for inclusion in the netdev-2.6 git tree in your introductory '[PATCH 0/4]' mail. Since the official merge window for 2.6.16 is now over (2.6.16-rc1 has been released), it may have to wait for 2.6.17 to become part of the mainline kernel, that probably depends on Jeffs judgement. I would think it can still go in since it is a bug fix for the execution of 32 bit programs using x25 ioctls, but it's clearly not my decision ;-). Arnd <><