linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs

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Message-ID: <CC22D163-BB96-42F5-88DE-BD203860E7C2@fb.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Apr 2020 19:00:04 +0000
From:   Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com>
To:     Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
CC:     Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@...il.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        "linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "gregkh@...uxfoundation.org" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Petr Malat <oss@...at.biz>, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Patrick Williams <patrickw3@...com>,
        "Michael van der Westhuizen" <rmikey@...com>,
        "mingo@...nel.org" <mingo@...nel.org>,
        "Patrick Williams" <patrick@...cx.xyz>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and
 initramfs

> On Apr 1, 2020, at 2:50 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:52 AM Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mar 31, 2020, at 8:11 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:15 AM Nick Terrell <terrelln@...com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> [...]
>>> 
>>>>> Do you plan to push this for Linux v5.7?
>>>> 
>>>> I hope that it will be accepted. From my point of view this patch set is
>>>> ready for merge, except for the maximum window size increase
>>>> requested by Petr.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Hi Nick,
>>> 
>>> thanks for your answer.
>>> 
>>> Did you send out a pull-request already?
>> 
>> I haven’t sent out a pull request. If that is something that I need to
>> do, or if it makes the process easier for a maintainer to merge then
>> I can do that.
>> 
> 
> [ CC  Stephen Rothwell (maintainer of Linux-next) ]
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> as Adam pointed out it might be good to ask "Stephen Rothwell"
> <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
> to include your Git tree into linux-next. Stephen will give you some
> informations about that.

Thanks for the pointers Sedat and Adam! I will reach out and ask
about the best way forward. I don’t particularly care if it makes it in
5.7 or 5.8, I just want to ensure that it does get merged this time.

Best,
Nick