Re: [PATCH] ARM: head-common.S: Clear lr before jumping to start_kernel()

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Thu Oct 12 2017 - 08:34:46 EST


Hi Russell, Nicolas,

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:23 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 01:33:25PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>> * Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [171003 11:32]:
>> > On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:15 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:11 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > >> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 5:37 PM, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > >>> On Tue, 3 Oct 2017, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> > >>> Please send it to RMK's patch system.
>> > >>
>> > >> Done (I hope so ;-)
>> > >
>> > > Failed. Retrying.
>> >
>> > Yiha ;-)
>> >
>> > http://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8702/1
>>
>> This also fixes the spamming I started seeing with next-20171009:
>>
>> Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> It's all nice and good that people are testing this patch, but I can't
> apply it to -rc1, nor my "misc" branch. It appears that this is due
> to patches going through other trees.
>
> Sorry, I can't take this patch.
>
> (This is the falicy about any one particular tree having rights to
> exclusively own a sub-tree in the kernel...)

So through which tree did this end up in -next?

Apparently Nicolas committed 9520b1a1b5f7a348 ("ARM: head-common.S: speed up
startup code") himself, and then asked me to send the fix for that commit to
Russell anyway?
The commit above is actually in Russell's
git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm.git#for-next.

Russell, you did merge it yourself into for-next in commit 476242482bdee72b
("Merge branch 'xip_zdata' of http://git.linaro.org/people/nicolas.pitre/linux
into devel-testing").

My patch applies fine against your for-next branch. So I fail to see why
you can't take this patch?

Thanks!

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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