Re: [PATCH] ppc: make also linking work with big-endian tool chain

[Shawn Anastasio <sanastasio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/5/23 11:53 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 05/07/2023 5:22 pm, Shawn Anastasio wrote:
>> On 7/5/23 11:09 AM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>> On 05.07.2023 17:10, Shawn Anastasio wrote:
>>>> Acked-by: Shawn Anastasio <sanastasio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Thanks.
>> Just to clarify, as the maintainer of PPC64, would it be my
>> responsibility to commit this now directly to xen/staging? Or should I
>> commit it to my own tree and have someone pull it?
>>
>> I'm not super familiar with the project's maintainer workflow yet so any
>> hints would be appreciated.
> 
> Ah, so this is somewhere where we're quite different to Linux.
> 
> There is one single tree, and there are a small group of people with
> commit access.  We're "THE REST" in the maintainers file.  Jan can
> commit, as can I, and several others.
> 
> The role of committers is (technically at least) to take any patch from
> the mailing list which is suitably acked, and commit it.
> 
> So, in principle you have nothing further to do here.  As this is one of
> Jan's patches, I'm sure he'll include in in the next set of patches he
> commits.
> 
> It can happen that patches fall between the cracks, so it is generally
> helpful for maintainers to double check and ping on IRC/email/etc if
> there are patches that appear to be outstanding.
> 
> ~Andrew

Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense.

Shawn