linux-kernel - Re: How to get lockref patch merged?

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Message-ID: <20180403172055.GB15938@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Apr 2018 19:20:55 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Bob Peterson <rpeterso@...hat.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to get lockref patch merged?

On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 01:13:00PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> what's the best way to get the following lockref patch merged? The
> maintainers file doesn't list a maintainer. Should we go straight to
> Linus? Does one of you want to take it?

Andrew normally takes lib/ patches, but:

> We have a gfs2 patch that depends on it.

Then just include it in your patch series for gfs2 through the normal
path you use for that.

thanks,

greg k-h