Excerpts from Arnd Bergmann's message of October 10, 2020 6:25 pm: > On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 4:02 AM Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Fri, 9 Oct 2020 16:01:22 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > Are there other changes that depend on this? If not, I would >> > just wait until -rc1 and then either push the branch correctly or >> > rebase the patches on that first, to avoid pushing something that >> > did not see the necessary testing. >> >> If it is useful enough (or important enough), then put in in your >> linux-next included branch, but don't ask Linus to merge it until the >> second week of the merge window ... no worse than some other stuff I >> see :-( > > By itself, it's a nice cleanup, but it doesn't provide any immediate > benefit over the previous state, while potentially introducing a > regression in one of the less tested architectures. > > The question to me is really whether Nick has any pending work > that he would like to submit after this branch is merged into > mainline. Not for this merge window but I was hoping to submit something for improving lazy tlb handling in the next one. Thanks, Nick
