On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:57:49 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Kees, > > > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 15:37:12 -0800 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Is it time to pull this into -next so more people can feel it? I brought > >> Andy Lutomirski's patches forward (needed to bump the prctl values), and > >> updated my git tree. If we're ready, here it is in all its request-pull > >> format glory: > >> > >> The following changes since commit 2422c8368337196594265d52cad7316c9404bfcf: > >> __ Stephen Rothwell (1): > >> __ __ __ __ Add linux-next specific files for 20120301 > > > > OK, not commenting on anything else, but I cannot merge that into > > linux-next because it is based on yesterday's linux-next release and > > linux-next (effectively) rebases every day ... > > > > Does this work depend on anything in linux-next? __Or could it be just > > based off Linus' tree. __If it depends on other tree(s) merged into > > linux-next, then you should base your tree on those tree(s) as long as > > they never get rebased ... > > Unfortunately, yes, it does -- there were both ptrace changes and prctl changes. > > And at least the ptrace changes are, IIRC, in -mm, which has no tree. > :P Given that, what's the best thing for me to do for this to be easy > for you to pull? Base the tree on mainline and wreck the -mm patches I guess. I'm good at unwrecking patches. That assumes that we're going to merge this stuff into 3.4 - if we don't, unwrecker gets rewrecked and grumpy. I don't know if we're going to merge it into 3.4? I haven't been paying a lot of attention and haven't looked at the patches in a while. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
