linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] kexec: Remove "weak" annotations from headers

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Date:   Tue, 17 Apr 2018 09:09:59 -0500
From:   Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
To:     Philipp Rudo <prudo@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] kexec: Remove "weak" annotations from headers

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 11:08:20AM +0200, Philipp Rudo wrote:
> Hi Bjorn,
> 
> in recent patches AKASHI [1] and I [2] made some changes to the declarations
> you are touching and already removed some of the weak statements. The patches
> got accepted on linux-next and will (hopefully) be pulled for v4.17. So you
> should prepare for some merge conflicts. Nevertheless three weak statements
> still remain (arch_kexec_walk_mem & arch_kexec_apply_relocations*) so your
> patch still makes totally sense.

Thanks, I see those changes in v4.17-rc1.  I'll update my patches and
post a v2.