linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: decompressor: support AUTO

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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:59:49 +0100
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@...der.be>,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
	"Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@...nel.org>,
	Eric DeVolder <eric.devolder@...cle.com>,
	Nathan Chancellor <nathan@...nel.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...ainline.org>,
	John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] ARM: decompressor: support AUTO_ZRELADDR and
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On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 03:50:58PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 1:24 PM Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry for asking again... but any news for this?
> >
> > I have also added the 2 patch here [1] [2].
> >
> > Been in incoming from a long time and I have seen other patch getting
> > accepted. Did I do something wrong in submitting the 2 patch?
> 
> Hm Russell must have had some concerns, Russell?

I've been snowed under for about the last six weeks - with only the
occasional day that isn't silly. It's that kind of frustrating snowed
under where each problem is a bit like a brick wall placed every 1m
and you're supposed to be doing a 100m sprint race - you can't see
the next brick wall until you've climbed over the first.

Whether I have time to read the mailing lists or not depends entirely
on what is happening on any particular day.

> If for nothing else I think some Tested-by:s would be appreciated,
> do we have some people who use this that can provide Tested-by
> tags?

Yes, tested-by's would be a really good idea, because my gut feeling
is that this change has moderate risk of causing regressions. I'm
not talking about "it works for me on the setup it's intended for"
I'm talking about other platforms.

I'm also wondering about distros, and what they're supposed to do
with the config option with their "universal" kernel that's
supposed to boot across as many platforms as possible, what they
should set the config option to, and what impact it has when enabled
on platforms that it isn't originally intended for.

I haven't really read much of the patch because I've been so busy,
so I may be being overly cautious. Given that I am quite busy, I
would appreciate a summary of the situation rather than being fed
with lots of results! In other words, the tested-bys, and "it works
on all the xyz platforms that we've testsed, nothing appears to have
regressed" would be ideal.

Thanks.

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