Re: [PATCH] drm/radeon: Replace kmap() with kmap_local_page()

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Nov 01 2022 - 19:40:13 EST


On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 12:11:53AM +0100, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On lunedì 17 ottobre 2022 18:52:10 CET Alex Deucher wrote:
> > Applied. Thanks!
>
> Many thanks to you!
>
> However, about a week ago, I received a report saying that this patch is "Not
> Applicable".
>
> That email was also referring to another patch, for which I'll reply in its
> own thread.
>
> That report has a link to https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/project/linux-media/
> patch/20221013210714.16320-1-fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx/
>
> Can you please let me understand why, despite it was applied, this patch later
> shifted "State" to "Not Applicable"?

The kernel has multiple patchwork instances, so you got an "N/A" from
linux-media, but it was applied to the drm tree. (Yes, confusing. :P)

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Kees Cook