Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jan 2017 14:00:07 +0530 | From | Yury Norov <> | Subject | Re: [RFC3 nowrap: PATCH v7 00/18] ILP32 for ARM64 |
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 02:47:04PM +0000, Catalin Marinas wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:38:23PM +0530, Yury Norov wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:32:59PM +0300, Yury Norov wrote: > > > This series enables aarch64 with ilp32 mode, and as supporting work, > > > introduces ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T configuration option that is enabled for > > > existing 32-bit architectures but disabled for new arches (so 64-bit > > > off_t is is used by new userspace). > > > > > > This version is based on kernel v4.9-rc1. It works with glibc-2.24, > > > and tested with LTP. > > > > Hi Arnd, Catalin > > > > For last few days I'm trying to rebase this series on current master, > > and I see significant conflicts and regressions. In fact, every time > > I rebase on next rc1, I feel like I play a roulette. > > > > This is not a significant problem now because it's almost for sure > > that this series will not get into 4.10, for reasons not related to > > kernel code. And I have time to deal with regressions. But in general, > > I'd like to try my patches on top of other candidates for next merge > > window. I cannot read all emails in LKML, but I can easily detect > > problems and join to the discussion at early stage if I see any problem. > > > > This is probably a noob question, and there are well-known branches, > > like Andrew Morton's one. But at this stage it's very important to > > have this series prepared for merge, and I'd prefer to ask about it. > > I'm not entirely sure what the question is. For development, you could > base your series on a final release, e.g. 4.9. For reviews and > especially if you are targeting a certain merging window, it's useful to > rebase your patches on a fairly recent -rc, e.g. 4.10-rc3. I would > entirely skip any non-tagged kernel states (like middle of the merging > window) or out of tree branches. There may be a case to rebase on some > other developer's branch but only if there is a dependency that can't be > avoided and usually with prior agreement from both the respective > developer (as not to rebase the branch) and the involved maintainers.
Hi Catalin, 4.10-rcX is good enough but I also need to be sure that when merge window will be opened I will not find my series broken due to conflicts, because merge window is only 2 weeks, and there's no much time to investigate and fix all bugs properly.
Anyway, linux-next is what I need, as Chris mentioned.
Yury
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