Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757823AbYGQQMG (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:12:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757613AbYGQQLq (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:11:46 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47459 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932109AbYGQQLp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:11:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:10:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt cc: Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, roland@redhat.com, Nathan Lynch Subject: Re: [PATCH] elf loader support for auxvec base platform string In-Reply-To: <1216276539.7740.309.camel@pasglop> Message-ID: References: <1216166331-14810-1-git-send-email-ntl@pobox.com> <1216166331-14810-2-git-send-email-ntl@pobox.com> <1216276539.7740.309.camel@pasglop> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (LFD 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 851 Lines: 23 On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Should I seek somebody's ack before merging a patch like the one below ? > > I'm a bit reluctant to merge via the powerpc.git tree some changes to > generic files without at least an ack from somebody else :-) Gaah. Generally we don't, but you're right to ask. The ELF loading keeps on accumulating these things, and I'm not sure we have the right process for things like this. They're all individually small and insignificant, and they are all individually never going away and making the ELF loader messier and messier. I dunno. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/