linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] lib/find_bit: fast path for small bitmaps

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Message-Id: <20210401173258.1f9a107ef13f210fb4896780@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 1 Apr 2021 17:32:58 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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        Alexey Klimov <aklimov@...hat.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>,
        Dennis Zhou <dennis@...nel.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Jianpeng Ma <jianpeng.ma@...el.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
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        Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.osdn.me>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] lib/find_bit: fast path for small bitmaps

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 12:50:31 +0300 Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:

> > I normally don't have a lot of material for asm-generic either, half
> > the time there are no pull requests at all for a given release. I would
> > expect future changes to the bitmap implementation to only need
> > an occasional bugfix, which could go through either the asm-generic
> > tree or through mm and doesn't need another separate pull request.
> >
> > If it turns out to be a tree that needs regular updates every time,
> > then having a top level repository in linux-next would be appropriate.
> 
> Agree. asm-generic may serve for this. My worries are solely about how
> much burden we add on Andrew's shoulders.

Is fine.  Saving other developers from having to maintain tiny trees is
a thing I do.