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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 09:59:02 -0500
From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/29] objtool sync up for the stable 4.9.y tree
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On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 02:26:23PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> There are pros and cons of dealing with tools in the kernel directory.
> The pros are the fact that development happens fast, and new features
> can be added to the kernel and the tools at the same times.  The cons
> are when dealing with backported kernel patches, it can be necessary to
> backport parts of the tool changes as well.
> 
> For 4.9.y so far, we have backported individual patches.  That quickly
> breaks down when there are minor differences between how backports were
> handled, so grabbing 40+ patch long series can be difficult, not
> impossible, but really frustrating to attempt.
> 
> To help mitigate this mess, this patch series works to sync up the
> objtool code with the version that is currently in 4.14.47.  This
> required a number of objtool old patches to be backported, a single big
> "sync the world" patch, and a lot of include file updates to get
> everything all working properly as well as some minor fixes for build
> warnings.
> 
> And at the end of this series, is a set of backported objtool patches
> for gcc-8 that was the main reason this whole patch series was created.
> They applied just fine, being the identical version that goes into the
> 4.14.y stable tree, so it feels like the backport was successful.
> 
> This has survivied my limited testing, and as the codebase is identical
> to 4.14.47, I'm pretty comfortable dropping this big change in here in
> 4.9.y.  Hopefully all goes well...
> 
> If anyone has any objections to this patch series, or finds anything I
> messed up on, please let me know.

Thanks Greg.  Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>

-- 
Josh