Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] compat/zlib: allow use of zlib-ng as backend

From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Jan 15, 2025, 15:50 UTC
Message-ID: <20250115-eccentric-zebra-of-hail-c22ba0@lemur>
In-Reply-To: <Z4dLeyF8N8PhYAZq@pks.im>

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 06:45:31AM +0100, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

> I have in fact started using b4, as it makes most of the tedious
> housekeeping around patch series go away, and it indeed uses
> `--full-index` to generate patches. There isn't any way to change that,
> but I'll send a patch upstream that gives us an option to do so.

This was done as part of this change: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/b4/b4.git/commit/?id=23a9ddba10a057bfa9c438c0b50ac36d278ae022

I'm not sure why --full-index was added there -- I don't think it's needed for --binary? Please feel free to send a fix for that.

> My last patches haven't gotten any feedback though, so let's see how it
> goes.

I had to focus on infrastructure needs over the past few months, but I'm starting on my b4 backlog soon.

-K