linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG

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Message-ID: <20200806092426.GL24529@alley>
Date:   Thu, 6 Aug 2020 11:24:26 +0200
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
Cc:     Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        live-patching@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "kbuild: use -flive-patching when
 CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled"

On Tue 2020-07-21 13:17:00, Miroslav Benes wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2020, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> 
> > Use of the new -flive-patching flag was introduced with the following
> > commit:
> > 
> >   43bd3a95c98e ("kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled")
> > 
> > This reverts commit 43bd3a95c98e1a86b8b55d97f745c224ecff02b9.
> > 
> > Fixes: 43bd3a95c98e ("kbuild: use -flive-patching when CONFIG_LIVEPATCH is enabled")
> > Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>

Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>

Hmm, the patch has not been pushed into livepatching.git and is not
available in the pull request for 5.9.

Is it OK to leave it for 5.10?
Or would you prefer to get it into 5.9 even on this stage?

I personally do not mind. It depends how urgent it is for others.

Best Regards,
Petr