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Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:44:09 +0200
From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] -funsigned-char, x86: make struct
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 11:33:39AM -0600, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hi Linus,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 11:15 AM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Can we please try to collect these all in one place?
> >
> > I see that Andrew picked up the original one for -mm, but I think it
> > would be better if we had one specific place for all of this (one
> > branch) to collect it all.
> 
> Sure. Andrew can drop it from -mm, and I'll collect everything in:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zx2c4/linux.git/log/?h=unsigned-char&r
> 
> And I'll ask Stephen to add that branch to -next.

So, as discussed, I'm doing this, and it's in -next now. And as a
result, we're getting warnings and such that I am fixing one by one.
Progress, good.

But it occurs to me that most of these bugs are not in
architecture-specific code like the x86 p4_event_bind one from last
week. That means I'll be submitting these as *fixes* during 6.1, since
they're broken on some architecture already, rather than waiting to
submit them to you via my unsigned-char tree in 6.2.

Just FYI.

Jason