From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>, live-patching@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: taint/module: Clean up global and module taint flags handling
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Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> writes:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2016, Jessica Yu wrote:
>
>> Hm, quick question, which tree would this patch go to? Though the
>> cleanup is for modules, there is an indirect cross-tree dependency
>> (taint_flag.module needs to be true for TAINT_LIVEPATCH for Josh's
>> patch to still work as intended). The least complicated thing to do
>> would be to just take this through the livepatch tree (with Rusty's
>> approval :-)), no?
>
> I don't want to be sneaking this behind Rusty's back, but he hasn't 
> reposnded so far.

I finally side-stepped this by appointing Jessica maintainer, thus her
Reviewed-by is sufficient for the module tree.

Lazy, huh?

Sorry for the delay,
Rusty.

> It's not vitally super-crucial to have this present in this very pull 
> request, so I am currently putting this on hold wrt. the upcoming merge 
> window pull request, and we'll then proceeed afterwards once Rusty 
> expressess his (n)ack. If this doesn't happen during the coming weeks, 
> I'll pick this up myself.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- 
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs