From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25406C4361B for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:10:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE95238E8 for ; Thu, 17 Dec 2020 17:10:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727368AbgLQRKQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:10:16 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:37604 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726595AbgLQRKQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:10:16 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:10:55 +0100 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1608224975; bh=0jEK+C+w87Pch7egdMjoBVbIkqvM5UoNUVPWiKQ7t98=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=eb7ltVHErC3Oc2LPPKoo+8yCj7hc5w3koLwubMeWdTCYZ2bt5QtKe48QSiMkXWT5S BkFe1fT3B6LtFF4rpz3pAlHhD1i+/nBE49h3oY71Zb+Z6iWRU9Fn5l1+baMu190DNs UznSQy2zMV6FPS0PH/Bt0V9ymya9XfpaaEkSkmEY= From: Greg KH To: Tom Rix Cc: Xu Yilun , mdf@kernel.org, linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lgoncalv@redhat.com, hao.wu@intel.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] UIO support for dfl devices Message-ID: References: <1608183881-18692-1-git-send-email-yilun.xu@intel.com> <85d48e41-0185-0938-b0ed-93d0f825e761@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <85d48e41-0185-0938-b0ed-93d0f825e761@redhat.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 05:35:51AM -0800, Tom Rix wrote: > > On 12/16/20 9:44 PM, Xu Yilun wrote: > > This patchset supports some dfl device drivers written in userspace. > > > > In the patchset v1, the "driver_override" interface should be used to bind > > the DFL UIO driver to DFL devices. But there is concern that the > > "driver_override" interface is not OK itself. So in v2, we use a new > > matching algorithem. The "driver_override" interface is abandoned, the DFL > > UIO driver matches any DFL device which could not be handled by other DFL > > drivers. So the DFL UIO driver could be used for new DFL devices which are > > not supported by kernel, also it will not impact the devices which are > > already got supported. > > This set looks good to me. > > Moritz, > > Is it possible to get this into 5.11 ? How would that be possible? New features have to be in linux-next successfully, _BEFORE_ the merge window opens. Please read Documentation/process/ for how we do all of this... thanks, greg k-h