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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 14:00:11 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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* Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 01:03:54PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > > > The whole series is available at
> > > > > 
> > > > >         https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux.git syscalls-WIP
> > > > 
> > > > BTW., I'd like all these bits to go through the x86 tree.
> > > > 
> > > > What is the expected merge route of the generic preparatory bits?
> > > 
> > > My current plan is to push the 109 patch bomb to remove in-kernel calls to syscalls
> > > directly to Linus once v4.16 is released.
> > 
> > Are there any (textual and semantic) conflicts with the latest -next?
> > 
> > Also, to what extent were these 109 patches tested in -next?
> 
> These 109 patches are equivalent to the syscalls tree in linux-next. Most of
> these patches habe been in there for quite a while (the last major batch went
> in on March 22; other patches are in there since March 14th).
> 
> Conflicts existend with asm-generic and metag (which contain remvoal of some
> architectures; I have solved that issue by not caring about those archs any
> more); trivial conflicts exist since very few days with the vfs and sparc
> trees.

Ok, great - all that sounds good to me, and I'll integrate the x86 bits once the 
generic bits are upstream.

Thanks,

	Ingo