Re: [GIT PULL] Please pull IOMMUFD subsystem changes

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 08:59:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 at 16:40, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> wrote:
> >
> > This includes a shared branch with VFIO:
> >
> >  - Enhance VFIO_DEVICE_GET_PCI_HOT_RESET_INFO so it can work with iommufd
> >    FDs, not just group FDs. [...]
> 
> So because I had pulled the vfio changes independently with their own
> merge message, I ended up editing out all the commentary you had about
> the vfio side of the changes.
> 
> Which is kind of sad, since you arguably put some more information and
> effort into it than Alex had done in his vfio pull request. But the
> vfio parts just weren't part of the merge any more.
> 
> I did put a link to your pull request in the commit, so people can
> find this info, but I thought I'd mention how I ruthlessly edited down
> the merge commit message to just the parts that were new to the merge.
> 
> I appreciate the extra background, even if I then decided that by the
> time I merged your part, some of it was "old news" and not actually
> about what I merged when I pulled your branch.
> 
> .. and if I had realized when I merged the vfio parts, I probably
> could have added your commentary to that merge. Oh well.

Thanks, I've been trying to make these PR emails sort of a 'state of
the union' for the project as there are a lot of collaborators
involved right now. The vfio parts are logically part of the iommufd
work.

Jason