linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] Make initramfs honor CONFIG_DEVTMPFS

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Message-ID: <5c597b68-4946-56ae-f5f8-a5f87bb22b44@landley.net>
Date:   Fri, 15 May 2020 20:14:42 -0500
From:   Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Make initramfs honor CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT

On 5/14/20 11:50 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi Rob,

Um, hi.

> You need to send this patch to some maintainer who could merge it.

The implicit "if" is "you expect the kernel bureaucracy to merge anything Not
Invented Here", and the 3 year gap since the last version is because I stopped:

  https://landley.net/notes-2017.html#14-09-2017

To be honest I didn't think anyone would notice this. They don't usually:

  http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2002.2/00083.html
  https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-sh/msg56844.html

It just seems polite to post things that got shipped to customers.

> And it uses the wrong multi-line comment format.

Offending comment removed.

Rob

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