Re: Upcoming nolibc pull request for the next merge window

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sat Jul 22 2023 - 00:50:43 EST


On Sat, Jul 22, 2023 at 01:01:20PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2023 10:39:48 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This is just to let you know that Willy and I are adding co-maintainers
> > for nolibc. Shuah Khan will join me as administrative maintainer,
> > and will be sending the pull request to you for the next merge window.
> >
> > Similarly, Thomas Weißschuh will be joining Willy as technical maintainer
> > for nolibc. With luck, this won't affect you, but in case you come across
> > a nolibc issue, please reach out to Thomas as well as Willy, Shuah,
> > and myself. There will of course be an update to the MAINTAINERS file
> > in the near future, but just to let you know in the meantime.
>
> Would it make sense to add a separate nolibc branch to linux-next (and
> no longer merge it into the rcu branch? Or are there dependencies
> between the two?

Dependencies between nolibc and RCU are extremely rare, so it might well
make sense to have a separate branch.

Maybe nolibc/next from either the -rcu tree or Shuah's tree? Shuah,
would something else work better for you?

Thanx, Paul