Re: [PATCH 2/6] ARM: xen: Register with kernel restart handler

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 09:48:59AM -0400, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> On 6/3/21 9:38 AM, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, 03 Jun 2021, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 01:43:36PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 15:52, Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>
> >>>> Register with kernel restart handler instead of setting arm_pm_restart
> >>>> directly.
> >>>>
> >>>> Select a high priority of 192 to ensure that default restart handlers
> >>>> are replaced if Xen is running.
> >>>>
> >>>> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>  arch/arm/xen/enlighten.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> >>>>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>> This patch does appear to be useful.
> >>>
> >>> Is this just being solved in downstream trees at the moment?
> >>>
> >>> It would be nice if we could relinquish people of this burden and get it
> >>> into Mainline finally.
> >>>
> >> There must have been half a dozen attempts to send this patch series
> >> upstream. I have tried, and others have tried. Each attempt failed with
> >> someone else objecting for non-technical reasons (such as "we need more
> >> reviews") or no reaction at all, and maintainers just don't pick it up.
> > Looking at the *-by tag list above, I think we have enough quality
> > reviews to take this forward.
> >
> >> So, yes, this patch series can only be found in downstream trees,
> >> and it seems pointless to submit it yet again.
> > IMHO, it's unfair to burden multiple downstream trees with this purely
> > due to poor or nervy maintainership.  Functionality as broadly useful
> > as this should be merged and maintained in Mainline.
> >
> > OOI, who is blocking?  As I see it, we have 2 of the key maintainers
> > in the *-by list.  With those on-board, it's difficult to envisage
> > what the problem is.
> 
> 
> Stefano (who is ARM Xen maintainer) left Citrix a while ago. He is at sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx (which I added to the CC line).

Stefano already reviewed this patch, which is part of a larger series
that primarily touches 32-bit ARM code, but also touches 64-bit ARM
code as well.

As I said in my previous reply, I don't see that there's any problem
with getting these patches merged had the usual processes been
followed - either ending up in the patch system, or the pull request
being sent to me directly.

Sadly, the pull request was sent to the arm-soc people excluding me,
I happened to notice it and requested to see the patches that were
being asked to be pulled (since I probably couldn't find them)...
and it then took two further weeks before the patches were posted,
which I then missed amongst all the other email.

It's a process failure and unfortunate timing rather than anything
malicious.

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