On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 02:10:13PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:

On 10/2/25 14:00, Daniel Walker (danielwa) wrote:

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The way I'd suggest going about getting this merged is to solicit
reviews and testing from folks and then get those annotations into the
patches. As it stands, this series has zero tags in addition to the SoB
tags which I assume were its authors.

How does one go about soliciting reviews from your perspective ? Typically I
just submit it in this fashion and whoever is interested reviews it.

First, figure out who should ideally review it. Find the maintainers,
find who's been sending patches and reviewing in the area lately. Use
get_maintainer.pl.

Then, ask nicely. :)

	"Hey x86 maintainers, I've got this series with a pretty nice 	
	diffstat in arch/x86. Any chance you could take a look and give
	an ack if you like what you see?"

You can do that in private mails, or in a separate thread, or in a reply
to the original series. Or, go hunt folks down on IRC.

Just tossing the series over the wall and giving it thoughts and prayers
usually isn't the most effective route.

I've always figured people wouldn't appreciate private emails. I guess I can try
it tho.

BTW, your series looks like a *really* good idea. Please don't let it
die. But you might want to trim it down a bit. I'd probably remove the
tests and the 'insert-sys-cert' changes to make it more approachable to
folks.

Since x86 is asking for it I think it would trim it down to just what is needed
for x86. If I don't trim down the architectures it ropes in too many people
anyway.

The biggest issue is that libstub would need to be modified, but I've never had any
luck getting the libstub maintainer to review anything. I suspect he would
ignore private email too, particularly from people he's doesn't know.

I'll try re-submitting it in the manner your suggesting.

Daniel