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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Erwin Tsaur <erwin.tsaur@intel.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	0day robot <lkp@intel.com>,
	linux-nvdimm <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 18:38:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200930163839.GK6810@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wjmtMDW2oUfGrXTKcESqEHx1vWCqO65o051UNL-cX9AAg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 09:28:33AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Oh, it's pretty much 100%.

Oh good.

> I can't imagine what would make me skip an rc8 at this point.
> Everything looks good right now (but not rc7, we had a stupid bug),
> but I'd rather wait a week than fins another silly bug the day after
> release (like happened in rc7)..

Yeah, -rc8 is clearly the best idea, why *wouldn't* one do it?!

:-)))

> We're talking literal "biblical burning bushes telling me to do a
> release" kind of events to skip rc8 by now.

If you do, it probably'll look like this:

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 992d24467ca0..5e8819b99110 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 VERSION = 5
 PATCHLEVEL = 9
 SUBLEVEL = 0
-EXTRAVERSION = -rc7
-NAME = Kleptomaniac Octopus
+EXTRAVERSION =
+NAME = Biblical Burning Bushes
 
 # *DOCUMENTATION*
 # To see a list of typical targets execute "make help"

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-30 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-23 16:41 [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user, kernel} Dan Williams
2020-09-23 16:41 ` [PATCH v9 1/2] x86, powerpc: Rename memcpy_mcsafe() to copy_mc_to_{user, kernel}() Dan Williams
2020-09-29 10:25   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-30 16:13     ` Dan Williams
2020-09-23 16:42 ` [PATCH v9 2/2] x86/copy_mc: Introduce copy_mc_generic() Dan Williams
2020-09-29 22:32 ` [PATCH v9 0/2] Renovate memcpy_mcsafe with copy_mc_to_{user, kernel} Dan Williams
2020-09-30  5:04   ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-30 15:49     ` Dan Williams
2020-09-30 16:24       ` Borislav Petkov
2020-09-30 16:28         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-30 16:38           ` Borislav Petkov [this message]

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