linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/23] Use asm-generic for mmu

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Date:   Sun, 11 Oct 2020 06:00:59 +1100
From:   Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux-MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/23] Use asm-generic for mmu_context no-op
 functions

Hi Arnd,

On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 10:25:11 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 4:02 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:01:22 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> >  
> > > Are there other changes that depend on this? If not, I would
> > > just wait until -rc1 and then either push the branch correctly or
> > > rebase the patches on that first, to avoid pushing something that
> > > did not see the necessary testing.  
> >
> > If it is useful enough (or important enough), then put in in your
> > linux-next included branch, but don't ask Linus to merge it until the
> > second week of the merge window ... no worse than some other stuff I
> > see :-(  
> 
> By itself, it's a nice cleanup, but it doesn't provide any immediate
> benefit over the previous state, while potentially introducing a
> regression in one of the less tested architectures.

OK.

> The question to me is really whether Nick has any pending work
> that he would like to submit after this branch is merged into
> mainline.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell

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