linux-kernel - Re: kgdb-next not pushed to Linus for 3.19

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Date:	Tue, 6 Jan 2015 16:30:31 -0600
From:	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: kgdb-next not pushed to Linus for 3.19

On 01/06/2015 03:21 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 10:57:42 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2015-01-06 at 18:54 +0000, Daniel Thompson wrote:
>>> Hi Jason
>>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out what to do with my long-outstanding kgdb/kdb
>>> patches in preparation for the 3.20 merge window.
>>>
>>> As of now I have five pending patch sets some of which are well over six
>>> months old (and none have nay outstanding review comments).
>>>
>>> When I raised this with you a couple of months ago, two of the patch
>>> sets did land in your kgdb-next tree. However nothing seems to have
>>> happened since then and I couldn't find any messages from you during the
>>> 3.19 merge window.
>>>
>>> I'm afraid I don't know what else I need to do to progress things.
>>>
>>> I do plan to do routine rebasing and resending of my patchsets but,
>>> based on the past experience, that seems unlikely to be enough to get
>>> the code delivered in 3.20.
>>>
>>> Do you think I would be better sending these patches via someone else?
>>> In any case, advice would be very welcome.
>> Andrew?
>>
>> I think Daniel's kgdb patches are bug fixes.
>>
>> Can you please pick them up?
> yup.  Merging patches which are already in -next is a bit of a pain,
> but I'll cope.
>
> Daniel, can you please resend everything in a nice clean coherent
> stream?
>

I did not mean to miss the merge window, but I ended up being out the majority of December -> yesterday.

Now that I am back, I don't think you have to burden Andrew here.  I'll send a pull request for what is in kgdb-next since it is cleanups and fixes, and regression test anything else Daniel has left.

Cheers,
Jason.

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