Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] lib/find_bit: fast path for small bitmaps

Andrew Morton
2021-04-02T00:33:14Z

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 12:50:31 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote:

> > I normally don't have a lot of material for asm-generic either, half
> > the time there are no pull requests at all for a given release. I would
> > expect future changes to the bitmap implementation to only need
> > an occasional bugfix, which could go through either the asm-generic
> > tree or through mm and doesn't need another separate pull request.
> >
> > If it turns out to be a tree that needs regular updates every time,
> > then having a top level repository in linux-next would be appropriate.
>
> Agree. asm-generic may serve for this. My worries are solely about how
> much burden we add on Andrew's shoulders.

Is fine. Saving other developers from having to maintain tiny trees is
a thing I do.