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

From: Linux regression tracking (Thorsten Leemhuis)
Date: Wed Oct 09 2024 - 04:53:03 EST


On 09.10.24 00:48, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 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
>
> ;)

:-D

Great, thx!

>> 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.

Many thx!

Ciao, Thorsten