linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] docs/mm: add boot time memory management docs

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Message-ID: <20180718060249.6b45605d@lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 18 Jul 2018 06:02:49 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        linux-doc <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/11] docs/mm: add boot time memory management docs

On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 14:47:30 +0300
Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> > So this seems like good stuff overall.  It digs pretty deeply into the mm
> > code, though, so I'm a little reluctant to apply it without an ack from an
> > mm developer.  Alternatively, I'm happy to step back if Andrew wants to
> > pick the set up.  
> 
> Jon, does Michal's reply [1] address your concerns?
> Or should I respin and ask Andrew to pick it up? 
> 
> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180712080006.GA328@dhcp22.suse.cz/

Michal acked #11 (the docs patch) in particular but not the series as a
whole.  But it's the rest of the series that I was most worried about :)
I'm happy for the patches to take either path, but I'd really like an
explicit ack before I apply that many changes directly to the MM code...

Thanks,

jon