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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:11:30 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] Compiler Attributes: naked can be shared
To:     Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Dominique Martinet
<asmadeus@codewreck.org> wrote:
> Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote on Thu, Sep 20, 2018:
>> Why not just route these through Andrew?  He takes lots of stuff like
>> this for this very reason.
>
> That works for me (although it might have helped if Andrew had been in
> Cc at any point in this discussion...), but part of the discussion was

Cc'ing him (and Luc too) now. I have put a bigger list of Cc people
for v5 (and will simply Cc everyone for all patches).

> about seriously maintaining these files, and Miguel stepped up to help
> with that so it could make sense to have his own tree.
>
>
> Frankly, after this whole episode I'd find quite helpful if "compiler
> stuff" (or headers maintainance in general) were to grow its own mailing
> list and start being considered like a proper component of the kernel.

Yeah, the compiler headers have seen quite some changes in the last ~3
years compared to the time before so it might be a good idea:

  https://ojeda.io/uploads/compiler-headers-file-size.png

>> It does impact quite a few people, and it's neigh-impossible to review
> this stuff as things are right now with a hand-picked list of CCs, no
> matter how large it is -- I don't mind if it goes in -next through its
> own branch or through Andrew, but a proper place where folks interested
> in these could subscribe and test/review the patches would be awesome.
>

I guess compiler folks would like that too.

Cheers,
Miguel