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Re:I got robbed of my first kernel contribution by nolist_policy on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @11:59AM (#37676639)
"I like my code better" is not what the maintainer said[1]:

> Hi Ariel,

>

> I've added Christophe to Cc who works on ppc32.

>

> I haven't actually reproduced the crash with gdbserver, but I have a

> test case which shows the bug, so I've been able to confirm it and

> test a fix.

>

> Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently. Can you try

> the patch below and make sure it fixes the bug for you?

>

> I've also attached the test case I've been using.

>

> Christophe are you able to test these on some 32-bit machines? I've

> tested it in qemu and on one 32-bit machine I have here, but some more

> real testing would be good.

>

>

> If the patch works then I'll need to do manual back ports for several of

> the stable kernels, and then once those are ready I will publish the

> patch.

>

> cheers

>

> [...]

[1] https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2022-June/24...

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