Re: [PATCH 1/2] ld: Fix relocatable.d XFAIL/notarget entry for hppa

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>]

On 08.08.2023 19:53, Sam James wrote:
> 
> Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> writes:
> 
>> On 08.08.2023 03:23, Sam James via Binutils wrote:
>>> PR 30734
>>> * ld/testsuite/ld-elf/relocatable.d: Fix notarget entry for hppa to match
>>>   hppa{1.1,2.0}*, like hppa2.0-unknown-linux-gnu which Gentoo uses.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
>>
>> Since the two patches deal with the only two outliers, I'd consider these
>> to be at least very close to obvious. Feel free to put in. Yet in the
>> future for arch-specific changes please remember to Cc respective arch
>> maintainers.
> 
> 1. ACK, pushed. Thank you. Sorry, I was a bit too conservative here.
> 2. Fair point, I will do this in future.
> 
> What's the rule for backports? Can I just do those if obvious?

Unless while the tree is closed, I'd say generally yes, but after waiting
a little (to see whether there's fallout nevertheless, as appears to be
the case here). Of course it also doesn't hurt asking.

> What
> about if they're not my commits but I've tested them and they're
> straightforward?

I'm less sure here - I, for one, would ask in such a case, despite (now)
being global maintainer.

Jan