Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:17:36 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
cc: Jessica Yu <jeyu@redhat.com>, 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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On Wed, 26 Oct 2016, Rusty Russell 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.

Awesome! :)

> Lazy, huh?

Laziness has always been the main power behind all the progress of the 
mankind :P

Jessica, do you want me to take the patch through livepatching tree still, 
or would you route it yourself now?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs