Can you add the binfmt_misc tree to linux-next?

James Bottomley James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com
Mon Jun 27 23:57:50 UTC 2016


On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 09:29 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2016 09:16:38 -0700 James Bottomley <
> James.Bottomley at HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Since I'd effectively become binfmt_misc maintainer when these 
> > patches get merged on the last person to touch it owns it 
> > principle, it makes sense to begin now more formally.  The tree is
> > at
> > 
> > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/binfmt_misc.git
> > for-next
> > 
> > It currently contains four patches adding the container emulation
> > infrastructure from the persistent-handlers branch.
> 
> Added from today.  I only found 3 patches, though:
> 
> 4af75df6a410 binfmt_misc: add F option description to documentation
> 948b701a607f binfmt_misc: add persistent opened binary handler for
> containers
> 9a08c352d053 fs: add filp_clone_open API

Yes, that's right, sorry, I can't count.

> Thanks for adding your subsystem tree as a participant of linux-next.
>   As you may know, this is not a judgement of your code.  The purpose 
> of linux-next is for integration testing and to lower the impact of
> conflicts between subsystems in the next merge window. 
> 
> You will need to ensure that the patches/commits in your tree/series
> have
> been:
>      * submitted under GPL v2 (or later) and include the 
> Contributor's Signed-off-by,
>      * posted to the relevant mailing list,
>      * reviewed by you (or another maintainer of your subsystem
> tree),
>      * successfully unit tested, and 
>      * destined for the current or next Linux merge window.
> 
> Basically, this should be just what you would send to Linus (or ask 
> him to fetch).  It is allowed to be rebased if you deem it necessary.

Thanks,

James



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