linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] generic command line v4

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Message-ID: <CAL_JsqLibRSi2n389Q7cf+1gQSidvfiZHjHCcGirgi0hgJ53-A@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:52:18 -0500
From:   Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
To:     Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@...pelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>,
        Daniel Walker <danielwa@...co.com>
Cc:     Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@...o.com>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-efi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] generic command line v4

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 4:15 PM Daniel Gimpelevich
<daniel@...pelevich.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2022-09-22 at 14:10 -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 05:03:46PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> [snip]
> > > As recently as last month, someone's patch to add such support was
> > > rejected for this reason [1].
> > >
> > > --Sean
> > >
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20220812084613.GA3107@willie-the-truck/
> >
> >
> > I had no idea.. Thanks for pointing that out. I guess I will re-submit in that
> > case.
> >
> > Daniel
>
> This has been happening repeatedly since circa 2014, on multiple
> architectures. It's quite frustrating, really.

It must not be that important. From the last time, IMO Christophe's
version was much closer to being merged than this series. This is not
how you get things upstream:

> * Dropped powerpc changes
>   Christophe Leroy has reservations about the features for powerpc. I
>   don't think his reservations are founded, and these changes should
>   fully work on powerpc. However, I dropped these changes so Christophe
>   can have more time to get comfortable with the changes.

Rob