linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/boot: fix relying on link order

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Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:00:30 +0100
From:   Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@...el.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] x86/boot: fix relying on link order

From: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:14:43 +0100

> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 01:09:18PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > > Things are a bit busy in the review queue at the moment.  As always,
> > > we'd love help reviewing stuff.  So, while you're waiting for us to
> > > review this, could you perhaps look around and find a series that's also
> > > hurting for review tags?
> > 
> > I've got Reviewed-by and Tested-by from Jiri, isn't that enough? Or
> > I need also some other group to get tags from?
> 
> What he actually means is if *you* yourself help out with patch review.
> Like find a set on lkml which you're interested in - I believe there
> will be no shortage of such sets - and poke at it, review it, ask
> devil's advocate questions, etc.
> 
> The distribution of work - gazillion submitters vs a handful of
> maintainers simply cannot scale and instead of submitters pinging
> maintainers all the time when they can look at their set, submitters
> could review other submitters' work in the meantime, while waiting.
> 
> I.e., a win-win-win situation. :-)
> 
> Makes more sense?

I know, I got it from the first read :D I try to review stuff I have
mature knowledge in each day, not that lots of them are from the x86
ML :s

> 
> -- 
> Regards/Gruss,
>     Boris.
> 
> https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

Thanks,
Olek