[PATCH 0/5] Kernel mode NEON for XOR and RAID6

Ard Biesheuvel ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org
Mon Jun 24 05:10:14 EDT 2013


On 24 June 2013 10:54, Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> I think it's probably fine now - you have ample justification, and you
> seem to be ensuring that things are done safely.
>

Great!

> The only thing I'm left wondering about is whether the bits outside
> arch/arm should go to anyone else, but MAINTAINERS is being unhelpful
> on that - so I'm tempted to say that if someone should've been copied
> who hasn't, and they're not in MAINTAINERS that's their problem.

As far as the RAID6 patch is concerned, my plan was to:
- get the ARM groundwork (this series) accepted (including the XOR
patch, which does live strictly under arch/arm);
- get the arm64 groundwork accepted (which uses the same API);
- post the RAID6 patch to LKML and cc to hpa (I have a local version
which has been slightly tweaked so it builds correctly for both arm
and arm64).

However, the RAID 6 patch does only affect arm/arm64, so perhaps it's
justified that you take it all in, only in that case, please allow me
to re-send the pull request so it contains the version that will build
on arm64 as well.

Regards,
Ard.



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