[PATCH v5 0/2] Add support for ECDSA-signed kernel modules
Stefan Berger
stefanb at linux.ibm.com
Thu Jun 10 11:50:01 UTC 2021
On 6/10/21 5:03 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2021 at 09:58:29AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> On 6/9/21 8:44 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 08:32:59AM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>>>> On 6/3/21 2:47 AM, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 2.29.2
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Please instead send a fix.
>>>> We have a Fixes tag in 1/2, so we want this to propagate to older kernels
>>>> and need the fix in 1/2 for that reason.
>>>>
>>>> Stefan
>>> So please do an additional fix and send it.
>> 1/2 is supposed to propagate to older kernels and needs to change as posted
>> here in v5 (assuming that this does indeed fix what the build bot was
>> complaining about). 2/2 also changes. A fix on top of v4 would fix 2/2 but
>> won't apply cleanly to 1/2 as cannot easily propagate to older kernels. Is
>> that what we want? Why can you not remove v4 from your queue and replace it
>> with v5?
>>
>> Stefan
> What you can do is to send fix or fixes with appropriate fixes tags and
> I can then squash them for appropriate patches. That's less work for me.
Once you squash a fix on top of existing 1/2 , existing 2/2 will not
apply anymore. I am not sure what to send you. I think it would take
less time to remove the existing 2 patches and replace them with v5.
Stefan
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