Comment 12 for bug 1628889

If there is no public repository, it will cause conflicts when merging and preparing new kernel releases.

Please provide public git repository which is rebased on devel rc milestones, starting from -rc1. Because canonical kernel team starts integration of new kernels from -rc1. Previously the "developerworks" downloads where severely out of date. And e.g. 4.9 catalog was not public until well after the final release.

The benefit of this patch is also dubious. It may be well known to s390x users; but not to the generic Linux users who are starting to use s390x. Have you considered contributing regular kernel manpages and documentation upstream instead of changing the codepaths that affect all architectures?

I'm inclined to reject applying the message catalog patch, as it will be a maintainance burden on the canonical kernel team delaying kernel maintainance and the -rc rebases, whilst providing little overall benefit. But it's up to the kernel team to accept/reject this patch/feature.