Re: [PATCH 1/2] s390/vfio-ap: r/w lock for PQAP interception handler function pointer

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2021 18:05:08 -0400
Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@linux.ibm.com> wrote:

> On 8/19/21 1:58 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 11:54:33AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >  
> >> Nope.  The only requests for merges through my tree that I'm aware of
> >> were [1] and what I understand was the evolution of that here now [2].
> >> Maybe you're thinking of [3], which I do see in mainline where this was
> >> 2/2 in that series but afaict only patch 1/2 was committed.  I guess
> >> that explains why there was no respin based on comments for this patch.
> >> Thanks,  
> > Tony,
> >
> > If you take Alex's tree from here:
> >
> > https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio/commits/next  
> 
> I navigated to this URL and clicked the green 'Code'
> button. I was given the option to download the zip file or
> use git to checkout the code at the URL displayed
> 'https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git'. I cloned the
> repo at that URL and the code was definitely not in any
> way similar to my code base. In particular, the
> arch/s390/include/asm/kvm_host.h file did not have any
> of the crypto structures.
> 
> I then downloaded the zip file and expanded it. The code
> looked legitimate, but this was not a git repository, so I
> had no way to cherry-pick my patches nor format patches
> to post to this mailing list.
> 
> Next, I tried cloning from 
> 'https://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio-next.git',
> but I was prompted for uid/pw.
> 
> So, the question is, how to I get the linux-vfio-next repo upon which I
> can rebase my patches? I apologize for my ignorance.

You can use git fetch to download the objects, ex:

$ git fetch git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git next
$ git checkout FETCH_HEAD

Or you could add a remote, ex:

$ git remote add vfio git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio.git
$ git remote update vfio
$ git checkout vfio/next

The former might be easier and add a lot less crufty objects to your
local tree if this is a one-off activity.  Thanks,

Alex