linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] unwind: Export unwind

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Message-ID: <CADyApD3uRdrAk6zkHPDwi93bt0NMPNS6yg+_JQ9j+y3JaQYNrg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 06:43:39 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanvandeven@...il.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, 
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, 
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, 
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, Indu Bhagat <indu.bhagat@...cle.com>, 
	"Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@....org>, Beau Belgrave <beaub@...ux.microsoft.com>, 
	Jens Remus <jremus@...ux.ibm.com>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>, 
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, tech-board-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/5] unwind: Export unwind_user symbol to GPL modules

On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 6:28 AM Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
 > So he could just send a thousand patch series that doesn't touch any other
> > subsystem? It would have a diffstat that touches nothing but kernel/lttng,
> > kernel/Makefile and kernel/Kconfig. Who's going to review it? Who's going
> > to accept it?
>
> Again, this is all things that we all know how to do and aren't new.
> Get someone in a subsystem relevant to it to review a patch series that
> adds the needed files to the kernel in a way that they can actually be
> reviewed.
>
> As it seems that we do have other tracing/perf developers already, start
> with them and go forward to see what they say.


and a good best practice before posting 1000 series is .. to identify
the most likely reviews and ask them upfront what their preferred way
to do this is...