Messages in this thread | | | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Date | Wed, 19 Feb 2020 14:06:40 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86/boot/compressed/64: Remove .bss/.pgtable from bzImage |
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On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 07:22:30PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:57:17PM -0500, Arvind Sankar wrote: > > There isn't any particular urgency (at least until fg-kaslr patches try > > Ok, I was just making sure you're not pinging because there's something > more urgent here. See below. > > > to make it 64MiB bigger), but it's unclear how long to wait before > > sending a reminder -- Documentation/process suggests that comments > > should be received in a week or so, pinging after 4 and 6 weeks seemed > > reasonable. If x86 has a longer queue, might be worth documenting that > > somewhere? > > We try to track all stuff but x86 is super crazy most of the time, > especially currently, so stuff gets prioritized based on urgency and we > also try to round-robin through all submitters so that stuff doesn't get > left out. > > Thus the one-week thing will never work with x86. Once a month ping > maybe. > > In your case, since it is an improvement which is good to have but not > absolutely a must and not a bugfix, it is understandable that it would > get pushed back in priority. > > But stuff usually won't be forgotten and we'll get to it eventually - it > is just that we're mega swamped all the time. :-\ >
Ok, thanks.
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