linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] remove arch/sh?

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Message-ID: <17b69880-3adc-202a-8ee3-4bce118934cb@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date:   Tue, 25 Jun 2019 16:31:59 +0200
From:   John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To:     Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] remove arch/sh?

Hi Rich and Sato-san!

On 6/25/19 4:29 PM, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 04:23:41PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 10:21:44AM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>>> I'm generally okay with all proposed non-functional changes that come
>>> up that are just eliminating arch-specific cruft to use new shared
>>> kernel infrastructure. I recall replying to a few indicating this, but
>>> I missed a lot more. If it would be helpful I think I can commit to
>>> doing at least this more consistently, but I'm happy to have other
>>> maintainers make that call too.
>>
>> It woud be great if you could at least apply with a tentative ack.
>> At least for some trees we try very hard to get a maintainer ack,
>> so silence is holding things back to some extent.
> 
> OK.

Could either of you review this patch by Michael Karcher which unbreaks
the SH kernel when kprobes are enabled [1]?

Sorry for being persistent, but the fix is actually needed to get the
Debian kernel boot on qemu-sh4 again since Debian enables kprobes.

Thanks a lot!
Adrian

> [1] https://marc.info/?l=linux-sh&m=156034655921917&w=2

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