Hello,

I have made several bug fixes and improvements to reed-solomon library.

There seems to be no maintainers for reed-solomon library, so I have to send this patch series directly to Linus Torvalds.

p.s. Revival of https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220806162510.157196-1-zhangboyang.id@gmail.com/

Best Regards,
Zhang Boyang

On 9/24/24 5:31 AM, Zhang Boyang wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have made several bug fixes and improvements to reed-solomon library.
> 
> There seems to be no maintainers for reed-solomon library, so I have to send this patch series directly to Linus Torvalds.

Hi,

If I were making this patch series, I would send it to Andrew Morton,
but if Linus takes it, I'm certainly OK with that.

Thanks.

> p.s. Revival of https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220806162510.157196-1-zhangboyang.id@gmail.com/

On 2024/9/27 01:03, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/24/24 5:31 AM, Zhang Boyang wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have made several bug fixes and improvements to reed-solomon library.
>>
>> There seems to be no maintainers for reed-solomon library, so I have to send this patch series directly to Linus Torvalds.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> If I were making this patch series, I would send it to Andrew Morton,
> but if Linus takes it, I'm certainly OK with that.
> 

Oh, yes, I found it would be probably a good idea to let it go through 
Andrew after reading kernel docs carefully. (I decided the patch 
destination according to MAINTAINERS file and I'd like to say sorry to 
Linus)

Zhang Boyang

> Thanks.
> 
>> p.s. Revival of https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220806162510.157196-1-zhangboyang.id@gmail.com/

On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 10:03, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>
>
> If I were making this patch series, I would send it to Andrew Morton,
> but if Linus takes it, I'm certainly OK with that.

I don't feel like I have the expertise of something like rslib, and
would actually suggest it go through one of the (very very few) users.

It's just pstore and some NAND chip drivers, afaik.

                 Linus

On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 10:12:39AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 10:03, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > If I were making this patch series, I would send it to Andrew Morton,
> > but if Linus takes it, I'm certainly OK with that.
> 
> I don't feel like I have the expertise of something like rslib, and
> would actually suggest it go through one of the (very very few) users.
> 
> It's just pstore and some NAND chip drivers, afaik.

I can review this soon and can take it via pstore; I'll probably go poke
tglx though, since IIRC, he was the original author.

-- 
Kees Cook

On 2024/9/29 05:11, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 10:12:39AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 10:03, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> If I were making this patch series, I would send it to Andrew Morton,
>>> but if Linus takes it, I'm certainly OK with that.
>>
>> I don't feel like I have the expertise of something like rslib, and
>> would actually suggest it go through one of the (very very few) users.
>>
>> It's just pstore and some NAND chip drivers, afaik.
> 
> I can review this soon and can take it via pstore; I'll probably go poke
> tglx though, since IIRC, he was the original author.
> 

Wow, that's great. Thanks for reviewing.

Zhang Boyang

On 2024/9/27 01:12, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 10:03, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> If I were making this patch series, I would send it to Andrew Morton,
>> but if Linus takes it, I'm certainly OK with that.
> 
> I don't feel like I have the expertise of something like rslib, and
> would actually suggest it go through one of the (very very few) users.
> 
> It's just pstore and some NAND chip drivers, afaik.
> 

I will try to send my patches to these rslib users. However, rslib users 
and rslib itself are different worlds (although rslib users can give it 
a test), and many of them are not under active development for years. I 
will try to send to Andrew as a last resort, and I will probably invite 
somebody from, for example, GNU Radio, to give my patches a review.

Thanks, and I'm sorry to disturb you.

Zhang Boyang

>                   Linus