On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2018: >> Why not just route these through Andrew? He takes lots of stuff like >> this for this very reason. > > That works for me (although it might have helped if Andrew had been in > Cc at any point in this discussion...), but part of the discussion was Cc'ing him (and Luc too) now. I have put a bigger list of Cc people for v5 (and will simply Cc everyone for all patches). > about seriously maintaining these files, and Miguel stepped up to help > with that so it could make sense to have his own tree. > > > Frankly, after this whole episode I'd find quite helpful if "compiler > stuff" (or headers maintainance in general) were to grow its own mailing > list and start being considered like a proper component of the kernel. Yeah, the compiler headers have seen quite some changes in the last ~3 years compared to the time before so it might be a good idea: https://ojeda.io/uploads/compiler-headers-file-size.png >> It does impact quite a few people, and it's neigh-impossible to review > this stuff as things are right now with a hand-picked list of CCs, no > matter how large it is -- I don't mind if it goes in -next through its > own branch or through Andrew, but a proper place where folks interested > in these could subscribe and test/review the patches would be awesome. > I guess compiler folks would like that too. Cheers, Miguel
