From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com (us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com [170.10.129.124]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0FA9E471D10 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 2026 10:04:09 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.129.124 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788429853; cv=none; b=nuUKygngH1vKP5icBCyPUSyxvs5wQmUuo0oQwYKzw1Y95rtKEhG1F/c12TYLKmRRhLPkjimwKdjJZDkl5OOAvj9uyJ8348FfRhYmz2JyKLKN2riEaxIOabm5khh58cdWb3YMlObwvsZQGpvqJ+dkTHdFim+ZIT6H0xMOcpbSqoY= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1788429853; c=relaxed/simple; bh=gdB4aDPcHnrT8svi12znDnIpqbHHU9JkNo6yjP6CSc4=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:Date:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=k3MsqtN6t3STAMN45LeXi7Db6Ovl+aaxihyTbNaNQCH/BTdD/gD4x1CYKXnYyV1DePchbSO6YqGHidzwvQA55IVt/OwW8LkFi/Efm+eB/8aMGwnoCXwZaaXGdvi9R0YhVJbg+Faiq6WyLqmZZpMWFZTxNIQv9Qx0ZGBIkBPJs1I= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=redhat.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b=QM1oOp6l; arc=none smtp.client-ip=170.10.129.124 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=quarantine dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=redhat.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="QM1oOp6l" DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1788429846; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=BOx5UsBcpJ107C2izhbZpmNC0abVl9+Uxw26Tqjp5i8=; b=QM1oOp6lPingm83nv316qdZzQu+2VdeDKrSKZkiqWEVpjE3pKvdSh0IebwXMQp1enh1Rf4 /tcdDU9azsKOPRqEZhMA8KLBbYk2c44xQ/U7ZTn6TFVomPems7iwaGNS4wcYKbCezPJxMz k4AJ+0uD+5Hluri+GDhAUuD1RENO3Fw= Received: from mx-prod-mc-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (ec2-54-186-198-63.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com [54.186.198.63]) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP with STARTTLS (version=TLSv1.3, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) id us-mta-615-d3WSQXZSPseAsWF0hiW_Hw-1; Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:04:02 -0400 X-MC-Unique: d3WSQXZSPseAsWF0hiW_Hw-1 X-Mimecast-MFC-AGG-ID: d3WSQXZSPseAsWF0hiW_Hw_1788429839 Received: from mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com [10.30.177.4]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mx-prod-mc-05.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88B941964CEE; Thu, 3 Sep 2026 10:03:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blackfin.pond.sub.org (unknown [10.44.22.5]) by mx-prod-int-01.mail-002.prod.us-west-2.aws.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E4D543000223; Thu, 3 Sep 2026 10:03:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by blackfin.pond.sub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6713821E682E; Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:03:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Markus Armbruster To: John Snow Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, =?utf-8?Q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9?= Lureau , Lukas Straub , Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= , Richard Henderson , zhenwei pi , Jonathan Cameron , Paolo Bonzini , Stefan Hajnoczi , Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy , Jiri Pirko , Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= , qemu-block@nongnu.org, Ani Sinha , Jason Wang , linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, Daniel P. =?utf-8?Q?Berrang=C3=A9?= , Igor Mammedov , Hanna Reitz , Alex Williamson , Stefan Berger , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Laurent Vivier , linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, Michael Tokarev , Fabiano Rosas , Zhao Liu , "Gonglei (Arei)" , Eric Blake , Peter Xu , Gerd Hoffmann , Kevin Wolf , Mauro Carvalho Chehab , qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, =?utf-8?Q?C=C3=A9dric?= Le Goater Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/43] qapi: convert (very) trivial intro sections In-Reply-To: (John Snow's message of "Wed, 2 Sep 2026 13:24:36 -0400") References: <20260831201945.287730-1-jsnow@redhat.com> <871pbd9qpy.fsf@pond.sub.org> <874ig7539j.fsf@pond.sub.org> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2026 12:03:52 +0200 Message-ID: <874ig6y7lj.fsf@pond.sub.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.4.1 on 10.30.177.4 X-Mimecast-MFC-PROC-ID: Yhb5daN4Iq6Ef94zboGrkxwQ-QMVF7Hjc8yRC-scLyE_1788429839 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable John Snow writes: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2026 at 6:58=E2=80=AFAM Markus Armbruster wrote: >> >> John Snow writes: >> >> > On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 7:05=E2=80=AFAM Markus Armbruster wrote: >> >> >> >> Series >> >> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster >> >> >> > >> > Thank you for your suffering :) >> >> You're welcome; it's my job[*]! >> >> > So, I think there's actually no real problem in checking in a partial >> > conversion as the infrastructure was coded specifically to allow it, >> > however you're the maintainer so I will follow your lead. I'm more >> > interested in moving forward than telling you how to do your job ;) >> > >> > The series will eventually enforce strict ordering, so there is no >> > chance we will miss anything. If we send a PR now, we also don't have >> > to keep rebasing the partial series against master. If you don't want >> > to submit a PR, please create a branch I can track and submit patches >> > against, and please periodically rebase it against origin/master. >> >> I worry a bit that having intros split about half between two styles >> would cause confusion and friction. I'd much prefer to get to >90% >> fairly quickly. If we think that's possible, I'm happy to queue up >> things in my tree, and take care of the rebasing. > > Everything up until the "convert multi-paragraph intros" patch (#44 in > my pending work) is approximately 87% of the total volume of > conversions. In the most recent off-list mail I sent you, that's > Sections 1-7 -- which is essentially all of the stuff that was > factored out as "semi-trivial"/"simple", plus the "TODO" conversions. > I believe these are pretty trivial to burn through, but would require > a bit of dedicated time. We could probably do it in a week if we > really pushed ... Let's try! > Existing volume of what you have reviewed and accepted is 55%. > > Well, either way, I just don't want to have to juggle so many patches > in the interim, so I am pushing a bit to just merge it to make > subsequent series easier to rebase and juggle so that e.g. I don't > have to have increasingly long "based-on" tags. > > (Makes sad, pouting noises.) I'm queuing up this series. If the Based-on become too unwieldy for anyone involved, let me know. >> [*] Some days my compensation is compensation for suffering ;)