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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:52:00 +0100 Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> wrote:

> > > It's really big and it's quite new and it's really late.  I think it best to await the
> > > next -rc cycle, see how much grief it all causes.
> >
> > Yes, this patch set is huge.
> >
> > It is, however, extremely necessary to get to the point where we can
> > test things better than full system tests (and then wait for a distro to
> > rebuild all their rpms and find a missed issue).  I know a lot of people
> > would rather see everything in a kunit test, but the reality is that, at
> > this level in the kernel, we cannot test as well as we can with the
> > userspace approach.
> >
> > With the scope of the change, it will be a lot of work to develop in
> > parallel and rebase on top of the moving of this code.  I'm wondering if
> > you can provide some more information on your plan?  Will this be the
> > first series in your mm-unstable branch after the release? iow, should I
> > be developing on top of the code moving around for my future work?  I am
> > happy enough to rebase my in-flight MAP_FIXED patches on top of this set
> > if that helps things along.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Liam
> 
> Thanks Liam!
> 
> I think best way forward unless you feel we should take a different
> approach Andrew is for me to simply wait until the end of the merge window
> and at the start of the week after rebase on 6.11-rc1 and do a resend?

How about you send out a version early next week and I'll aim to send
it in to Linus late in this merge window?