Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] Remaining patches for dynamic node programming using overlay dtbo

[Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>]

On 23/05/2024 08:40, Henry Wang wrote:
> Hi all,

Hi Henry,

> This is the remaining series for the full functional "dynamic node
> programming using overlay dtbo" feature. The first part [1] has
> already been merged.
> 
> Quoting from the original series, the first part has already made
> Xen aware of new device tree node which means updating the dt_host
> with overlay node information, and in this series, the goal is to
> map IRQ and IOMMU during runtime, where we will do the actual IOMMU
> and IRQ mapping and unmapping to a running domain. Also, documentation
> of the "dynamic node programming using overlay dtbo" feature is added.
> 
> During the discussion in v3, I was recommended to split the overlay
> devices attach/detach to/from running domains to separated patches [3].
> But I decided to only expose the xl user interfaces together to the
> users after device attach/detach is fully functional, so I didn't
> split the toolstack patch (#8).

So I was asking to split so we can get some of the work merged for 4.19. 
Can you clarify, whether the intention is to merge only patches #1-5?

Cheers,

-- 
Julien Grall