Re: [v2 PATCH] lib/raid6: Replace custom zero page with ZERO_PAGE

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 17:41:30 +0800 Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 05:02:28PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > Use the system-wide zero page instead of a custom zero page.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Why hasn't this patch been applied yet?
> 

Dunno.  I added it to mm.git and I shall drop it again if/when this
patch lands in linux-next via the raid tree (please).


btw, I wrote a patch:


From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: MAINTAINERS: add lib/raid6/ to "SOFTWARE RAID"
Date: Thu Jun 19 04:13:17 PM PDT 2025

Cc: Song Liu <song@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 MAINTAINERS |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/MAINTAINERS~a
+++ a/MAINTAINERS
@@ -23057,6 +23057,7 @@ F:	drivers/md/md*
 F:	drivers/md/raid*
 F:	include/linux/raid/
 F:	include/uapi/linux/raid/
+F:	lib/raid6/
 
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