Re: linux-next: manual merge of the keys-next tree with the modules tree

[Sami Tolvanen]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 9:57 AM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Thanks, Mark. David, I see the patches in keys-next were updated just
> > a few hours ago. Would it make sense for you to rebase them on top of
> > next-20260129? Petr's patch removed the use_signed_attrs variable, so
> > we should ensure it's still initialized correctly. Otherwise the
> > resolution looks trivial.
>
> Wouldn't that mean having to rebase before sending to Linus?

Do you plan to send these to Linus for 7.0-rc1? The patches already
depend on libcrypto-next landing first, right? If the patches were
last rebased 6h ago, I'm not sure if rebasing them on top of
modules-next would significantly affect the linux-next soak time, but
I'm fine either way.

> What's your branch that is being taken into linux-next?

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/modules/linux.git/log/?h=modules-next

Sami