Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs

Sedat Dilek
2020-04-02T14:37:27Z

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:00 PM Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 1, 2020, at 2:50 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:52 AM Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Mar 31, 2020, at 8:11 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:15 AM Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>>>> Do you plan to push this for Linux v5.7?
> >>>>
> >>>> I hope that it will be accepted. From my point of view this patch set is
> >>>> ready for merge, except for the maximum window size increase
> >>>> requested by Petr.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Nick,
> >>>
> >>> thanks for your answer.
> >>>
> >>> Did you send out a pull-request already?
> >>
> >> I haven’t sent out a pull request. If that is something that I need to
> >> do, or if it makes the process easier for a maintainer to merge then
> >> I can do that.
> >>
> >
> > [ CC Stephen Rothwell (maintainer of Linux-next) ]
> >
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > as Adam pointed out it might be good to ask "Stephen Rothwell"
> > <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> > to include your Git tree into linux-next. Stephen will give you some
> > informations about that.
>
> Thanks for the pointers Sedat and Adam! I will reach out and ask
> about the best way forward. I don’t particularly care if it makes it in
> 5.7 or 5.8, I just want to ensure that it does get merged this time.
>

Hi Nick,

just in case you did not know:
The Documentation directory in linux-Git has a subfolder called
"process" (RST format) which gives a lot of hints.

All stuff is also available as HTML if you prefer this format.
See [0] "A guide to the Kernel Development Process".

Hope that helps you.

Regards,
- Sedat -

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/index.html
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/2.Process.html#next-trees
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
[4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst