Re: [PATCH v4 0/16] Merge ram_console into pstore, and more

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue May 22 2012 - 15:09:46 EST


On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:33:33AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 07:17:17AM -0700, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> A brand new v4:
>> >>
>> >> - Per Kees Cook's comments, the patches no longer remove an automatic
>> >>   updates feature, but instead make the it configurable; plus disable
>> >>   it by default (in a separate patch);
>> >> - Fixed some bugs noticed by Colin Cross;
>> >> - Documented new continuous ramoops-console log behaviour (also
>> >>   noticed by Colin Cross).
>> >
>> > In case you were wondering, all of this is going to have to wait for
>> > 3.6, as the 3.5 merge window with my trees have been closed.  I'll be
>> > able to start accepting patches once 3.5-rc1 is out, so take your time
>> > in getting this all working properly, there's no rush here.
>>
>> Will the ramoops stuff that was in -next (via -mm) that now landed in
>> -staging make it sanely into 3.5? Specifically the two patches at the
>> top of:
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ramoops
>
> Anything that was in staging and linux-next already, yes, will go in for
> 3.5, I've already sent Linus the pull request for that.
>
> Is that a problem?

No problem at all -- it missed 3.4 on a technicality, and I didn't
want it to miss 3.5 too. :)

Thanks!

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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