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charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <3092527A105ADF46AAF5421F010E28FE@namprd11.prod.outlook.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: cisco.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-AuthAs: Internal X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-AuthSource: SJ0PR11MB5790.namprd11.prod.outlook.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-Network-Message-Id: 5b67ce5c-ba34-4985-9529-08dbe193e216 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 10 Nov 2023 02:22:27.2043 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: 5ae1af62-9505-4097-a69a-c1553ef7840e X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-mailboxtype: HOSTED X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-userprincipalname: KK4UR6e7pN9Me3SPGW3ogy0duaxcxJb4VhqtTqpVAHvrZyIt27moF2skLKZ+BT1Q6y+6pDStO6oEQXp2OUNRJw== X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: PH0PR11MB4950 X-Outbound-SMTP-Client: 173.37.147.252, alln-opgw-4.cisco.com X-Outbound-Node: rcdn-core-6.cisco.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Nov 09, 2023 at 05:51:42PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 9 Nov 2023 17:38:04 -0800 Daniel Walker wro= te: >=20 > > This release is an up-rev of the v5 patches. No additional features hav= e > > been added. Some changes were mode to function names and some changes t= o > > Kconfig dependencies. Also updated the config conversion for mips. > >=20 > > There are a number of people who have expressed interest in these > > patches either by asking for them to be merge or testing them. If > > people are so inclined please continue to request them to be merge > > or to ask the status of the next release. It's helpful to motivate me t= o > > release them again and for the maintainers to see the interest > > generated. > >=20 > > These patches have been used by Cisco Systems, Inc. on millions of > > released products to great effect. Hopefully they can be used by the > > entire Linux eco system. > >=20 >=20 > fyi, none of the above is suitable for a [0/N] changelog - it's all > transitory stuff which tells readers nothing much about what the > patchset does. =20 I did not think about it this way. It's because I've submitted this so many times. I guess I assume everyone knows what it is. > And that info is sorely missed. I can see that it's a code cleanup, > but I'm sure Cisco wouldn't expend resources to maintain such a thing.=20 > There's something else here. I think the prior submissions there was no cover letter, maybe I should jus= t achoo that entirely. > In [1/8] I see "Even with mips and powerpc enhancement the needs of > Cisco are not met on these platforms" and "This unified implementation > offers the same functionality needed by Cisco on all platform which we > enable it on". >=20 > Well OK, what are these needs? What functionality changes does this > patchset offer which Cisco finds useful? IOW, what were the > requirements? What's wrong with the old code and how does this > patchset fix/enhance that? The limitation is that you can't append and prepend to the command line at = the same time in any of the architectures. Having access to both allows OEMs to= deal with broken bootloaders which can't easily be upgraded. Others have respond= ed that they also use these patches for this same reason. In 2/8 and 3/8 I modify the insert-sys-cert tool to allow modification of t= he command line append and prepend after the build. This allow for an SDK provided with a binary kernel and for the command line append/prepend to st= ill be modified identically to how that's done with certificates. Making all this generic means each platform has a unified set of command li= ne services. Cisco uses x86/arm32/arm64/mips/powerpc , and it's nice to have a= ll the same features across platforms. >=20 > I see the patchset updates nothing under Documentation/. Should it do > so? Could it do so? The only documentation is Kconfig descriptions and commit messages. I suppo= se it could have something under Documentation/. The only part which could use mo= re documentation are the changes in 2/8 and 3/8. That feature is maybe confusi= ng and has limitations which are maybe not clear. Although the same limitation= exist for inserting certificates. >=20 > I don't know what is the expected merge patch for this work. I can > grab them if no other maintainer is in the firing line. merge patch ? Do you mean merge description ? I think your the maintainer i= n the firing line for this one. Daniel=