Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs

From: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
To: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Cc: Nick Terrell <nickrterrell@gmail.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>,
	"linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
	Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>,
	Patrick Williams <patrickw3@fb.com>,
	Michael van der Westhuizen <rmikey@fb.com>,
	"mingo@kernel.org" <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Patrick Williams <patrick@stwcx.xyz>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] Add support for ZSTD-compressed kernel and initramfs
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2020 16:37:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+icZUVBQEzoFDcd=uS14qXAdACUK5tRGbFsKBRhHTjYH1CWiQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CC22D163-BB96-42F5-88DE-BD203860E7C2@fb.com>

On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:00 PM Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> wrote:
>
> > On Apr 1, 2020, at 2:50 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 4:52 AM Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Mar 31, 2020, at 8:11 AM, Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 6:15 AM Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> [...]
> >>>
> >>>>> Do you plan to push this for Linux v5.7?
> >>>>
> >>>> I hope that it will be accepted. From my point of view this patch set is
> >>>> ready for merge, except for the maximum window size increase
> >>>> requested by Petr.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Hi Nick,
> >>>
> >>> thanks for your answer.
> >>>
> >>> Did you send out a pull-request already?
> >>
> >> I haven’t sent out a pull request. If that is something that I need to
> >> do, or if it makes the process easier for a maintainer to merge then
> >> I can do that.
> >>
> >
> > [ CC  Stephen Rothwell (maintainer of Linux-next) ]
> >
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > as Adam pointed out it might be good to ask "Stephen Rothwell"
> > <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> > to include your Git tree into linux-next. Stephen will give you some
> > informations about that.
>
> Thanks for the pointers Sedat and Adam! I will reach out and ask
> about the best way forward. I don’t particularly care if it makes it in
> 5.7 or 5.8, I just want to ensure that it does get merged this time.
>

Hi Nick,

just in case you did not know:
The Documentation directory in linux-Git has a subfolder called
"process" (RST format) which gives a lot of hints.

All stuff is also available as HTML if you prefer this format.
See [0] "A guide to the Kernel Development Process".

Hope that helps you.

Regards,
- Sedat -

[0] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/index.html
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/2.Process.html#next-trees
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/
[3] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/2.Process.rst
[4] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst