Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: 32 bit (socket layer) ioctl emulation for 64 bit kernels | Date | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:57:37 +0100 |
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Am Wednesday 18 January 2006 07:56 schrieb Shaun Pereira: > Assuming you are happy with the state of the patches, is there anyway > for me to know if they will become a part of the next release?
I don't see any more technical problems with your patches. You still need to proper patch description and Signed-off-by: line like it is described in Documentation/SubmittingPatches. You can add an 'Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>' line to the four patches you posted last if you like.
> Usually submitted/reviewed patches to netdev does not not always > guarantee they will be acccepted/signed-off. > Any advice would be useful
I'm not that familiar with the process for non-driver patches for netdev (nor for device drivers as it seems ;-)), but my understanding is that you should address those to Jeff Garzik as well, asking for inclusion in the netdev-2.6 git tree in your introductory '[PATCH 0/4]' mail.
Since the official merge window for 2.6.16 is now over (2.6.16-rc1 has been released), it may have to wait for 2.6.17 to become part of the mainline kernel, that probably depends on Jeffs judgement.
I would think it can still go in since it is a bug fix for the execution of 32 bit programs using x25 ioctls, but it's clearly not my decision ;-).
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