Re: nolibc changes since 6.6-rc1 for linux-next

From: Thomas Weißschuh
Date: Mon Oct 09 2023 - 03:23:06 EST


Hi Willy, Paul,

On 2023-10-09 08:53:58+0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2023 at 09:27:43AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> (...)
> > The other approach involves rebasing the "nolibc/next" stack
> > on top of the "nolibc/fixes" stack.
>
> That was my initial expectation as well, it's much easier, preserves
> the patches ordering so it guarantees that all fixes are always present
> in -next and that there won't be conflicts when they're finally submitted.

The workflow Paul described indeed makes a lot of sense.

I can redo it this afternoon.

> [..]

> > While in the area, would the following (absolutely not urgent or even
> > particularly important) patch be a good idea? This gets rid of a line
> > of noise from "git status" after running the tests.
>
> Good idea, feel free to propose a patch ;-)

How about directly folding it into the original patch?
I can take care of that later today, too.

Thomas