From: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
To: "Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)" <ljs@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] mm: convert further simple mmap hooks to mmap_prepare
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 15:50:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <au3bQYYHRxR9VRfh@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <au2odtvEhpLJY4eD@gremlin>
On Fri, Nov 06, 2026 at 10:18:06AM +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) wrote:
> > Granted I've only properly looked at the SELinux patch (7/14), the
> > rest I've just skimmed through, but these are all independent patches,
> > right? Is there any reason why individual subsystem maintainers
> > shouldn't just pick up their associated patch? Yes, perhaps chasing
> > down individual maintainers is a bit more work, but isn't that the way
> > this should work?
>
> I've no objection to people taking patches independently, the concern is people
> lagging on that and holding up a key conversion which is entirely mechanical, +
> generally tree-wide stuff like this has been via the mm tree.
This is probably the best way forward, as for a subsystem this is just a
different API for doing the exact same thing (and that way "idempotent").
And looking at the intersection points overall, the changes are neither
likely to cause any major merge conflicts...
Br, Jarkko
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-11-06 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-11-05 21:05 Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 01/14] xen/privcmd: convert mmap hook " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 02/14] KVM: PPC: Book3S: convert spapr TCE " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 03/14] mshv_vtl: convert mmap hooks " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 04/14] vduse: convert IOVA domain mmap hook " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 05/14] x86/sgx: convert vepc " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:43 ` Jarkko Sakkinen
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 06/14] udf: convert " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-06 13:58 ` Jan Kara
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 07/14] selinuxfs: convert mmap hooks " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 23:14 ` Paul Moore
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 08/14] xen: convert xenstore interface " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 09/14] soc: aspeed: convert LPC and P2A control " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 10/14] soc: qcom: rmtfs_mem: convert mmap hook " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 11/14] tee: convert shm " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 12/14] misc: bcm-vk: convert " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 13/14] ptp: vmclock: " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-06 0:34 ` David Woodhouse
2026-11-05 21:05 ` [PATCH 14/14] vhost-vdpa: " Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-05 23:12 ` [PATCH 00/14] mm: convert further simple mmap hooks " Paul Moore
2026-11-06 10:18 ` Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM)
2026-11-06 13:50 ` Jarkko Sakkinen [this message]
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