Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] Fix dosemu vm86() fault

[Dave Hansen]

On 10/8/24 06:52, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi, Thorsten here, the Linux kernel's regression tracker. Top-posting
> for once, to make this easily accessible to everyone.
> 
> Is there hope that patches like these makes it to mainline any time
> soon?

Unless it breaks something again:

> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/urgent&id=785bf1ab58aa1f89a5dfcb17b682b7089d69c34f

;)

> This yet again makes me wonder if some "[regression fix]" in the subject
> or "CC: regressions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" in the patches would help to make
> the regression aspect obvious to everyone involved. But it would create
> yet another small bit of overhead

In this case, not really.  This was a typical email screwup where I
didn't pick up that there was an updated patch that got appended to a
reply among the normal email noise.

We've been poking at this pretty regularly since getting back from Plumbers.