From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda Subject: Re: VT-d support for device assignment Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:11:32 +0300 Message-ID: <20080823121132.GA9057@il.ibm.com> References: <1219389054-15332-1-git-send-email-amit.shah@qumranet.com> <200808231555.25942.amit.shah@qumranet.com> <20080823104054.GD6942@il.ibm.com> <200808231641.02861.amit.shah@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: avi@qumranet.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, anthony@codemonkey.ws, jesse.barnes@intel.com, david.woodhouse@intel.com, mark.gross@intel.com, Ben-Ami Yassour1 , weidong.han@intel.com To: Amit Shah Return-path: Received: from mtagate3.uk.ibm.com ([195.212.29.136]:37638 "EHLO mtagate3.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752661AbYHWMLm (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:11:42 -0400 Received: from d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.38.185]) by mtagate3.uk.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m7NCBdx0231008 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:11:39 GMT Received: from d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.213]) by d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.0) with ESMTP id m7NCBcd22371784 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:11:38 +0100 Received: from d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d06av03.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m7NCBcik009961 for ; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:11:38 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200808231641.02861.amit.shah@qumranet.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:41:02PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > * On Saturday 23 Aug 2008 16:10:54 Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 03:55:25PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote: > > > The authorship info and the commit log stays the same; just contains > > > my signoff. > > > > Actually, unless you add an explicit 'From:' header, the email From > > header is used by git as the author of the patch. > > If you notice, Patch 1/2, VT-d one has the From: line set to Allen's > name (as Ben had sent). The patch 2/2 was modified by me, so it gets > my 'From'. Hence my comment about muddled authorship information and why it was better to keep your changes as a separate patch. Anyway, moving this thread to more constructive avenues: I think you said you are planning to implement and submit Avi's dma=xxx suggestion, and also had an outstanding userspace patch? Cheers, Muli -- Workshop on I/O Virtualization (WIOV '08) Co-located with OSDI '08, Dec 2008, San Diego, CA http://www.usenix.org/wiov08