On 2014-09-24 at 13:10:00 +0200, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 24 September 2014 18:57:54 Ley Foon Tan wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wednesday 24 September 2014 18:18:50 Ley Foon Tan wrote: > > >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> > On Tuesday 23 September 2014 18:20:08 LF.Tan wrote: > > >> >> Hi Arnd > > >> >> > > >> >> Are you okay with this generic futex in asm-generic? > > >> >> > > >> > > > >> > Yes, this looks good. Remind me again who need this, would it make > > >> > sense to merge this through an architecture-specific tree for > > >> > whichever architecture can benefit from it? > > >> What is the common practice for this? > > >> Do you mean merge with nios2 or other arch, eg m68k? > > > > > > I mean do it as part of the nios2 patches. > > I am okay with this. > > Do I need to get ACK for all patches in order for nios2 merge into mainline? > > Thanks. > > > > Please add my 'Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>' to this patch > once Thomas is ok with it. I think we had concluded already that it > was correct when we talked about it last time, but he doesn't seem > convinced yet so I want to wait for his reply. > > You definitely need an Ack for all patches touching code outside of > arch/nios2, from the respective maintainers. For the nios2 code, > having as many acks as you can helps, and I should probably take > a last look so I can ack the pull request when you send it. Speaking of the nios2 part: I'm the author of some parts of this code, but now also reviewed this series (or rather, intend to do so for the few remaining patches I didn't review yet). What is the appropriate way to account for this? Is Reviewed-By still OK? I guess I won't be considered an entirely neutral reviewer ;) Cheers Tobias -- 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
