linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] lib/test_hexdump: fix failure on big endian cpu

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Message-ID: <8736vnafdp.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Thu, 09 Aug 2018 22:33:38 +1000
From:   Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        rashmica <rashmicy@...il.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/test_hexdump: fix failure on big endian cpu

Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> writes:
> On Thu, 2018-08-09 at 16:18 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> rashmica <rashmicy@...il.com> writes:
>> > On 08/08/18 17:25, Michael Ellerman wrote:
>> > > Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr> writes:
>> > > > 
>> > mpe I sent a patch doing that awhile ago and you obviously didn't
>> > like
>> > it because you never merged it :P
>
> Hmm... I (as an author of the test case) never saw that patch.

I probably told Rashmica to send it to the linuxppc list and then I was
meant to follow up who should merge it. So my fault.

>> Sorry, I wasn't sure who should merge it, and never followed up.
>
> lib/* most of the time under Andrew's responsibility, though since it's
> orphaned in MAINTAINERS, anyone can push, though, I think, it's good to
> notify Andrew.

Yeah. I was going to apply it with your Ack because it seems pretty
uncontroversial, and there's nothing else in linux-next touching that
file so it should be conflict-free.

I guess I'll wait and see if Andrew would prefer to take it.

cheers