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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Rishi Chhibber <rishi.chhibber@broadcom.com>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de, bryan-bt.tan@broadcom.com,
	vishnu.dasa@broadcom.com, corbet@lwn.net,
	skhan@linuxfoundation.org, shuah@kernel.org,
	rdunlap@infradead.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ajay.kaher@broadcom.com,
	alexey.makhalov@broadcom.com,
	vamsi-krishna.brahmajosyula@broadcom.com, yin.ding@broadcom.com,
	tapas.kundu@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] misc: vmw_zerocopy: Add VMware zero-copy buffer sharing driver
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:13:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026091522-sprig-shrunk-392a@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9318be9d4da2392586d4ce72428592a3e5a02b99.1789413109.git.rishi.chhibber@broadcom.com>

On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 01:22:07PM -0700, Rishi Chhibber wrote:
> Summary of changes:
> - Add drivers/misc/vmw_zerocopy_core.c: the misc character device
>   /dev/vmw_zc, its single ioctl, page pinning and PFN collection
> - Add drivers/misc/vmw_zerocopy_vmci.c: the VMCI datagram transport backend
> - Add drivers/misc/vmw_zerocopy_priv.h: the wire-format message structs and
>   the struct vmw_zc_transport_ops interface that joins the two
> - Add include/uapi/linux/vmw_zerocopy.h: struct vmw_zc_guest_message and
>   VMW_ZC_IOCTL_MSG
> - Register ioctl magic 0xDC in
>   Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> - Add the VMW_ZC Kconfig symbol and a MAINTAINERS entry

This all goes below the --- line, right?  Otherwise it would show up in
the changelog which doesn't make sense :(

The kernel documentation should explain all of this, how did this pass
internal review?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-15  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-14 20:22 [PATCH v3 0/4] misc: vmw_zerocopy: VMware zero-copy buffer sharing driver Rishi Chhibber
2026-09-14 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] misc: vmw_vmci: Reserve a datagram resource id for zero-copy buffer sharing Rishi Chhibber
2026-09-14 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] misc: vmw_zerocopy: Add VMware zero-copy buffer sharing driver Rishi Chhibber
2026-09-15  7:13   ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-09-14 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] Documentation: misc: Add vmw_zerocopy driver documentation Rishi Chhibber
2026-09-14 20:22 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] selftests: misc: Add vmw_zerocopy selftest Rishi Chhibber
2026-10-01 12:00 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] misc: vmw_zerocopy: VMware zero-copy buffer sharing driver Greg KH

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