Re: [PATCH net-next 19/19] mtty: Optionally support mtty alias

Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08T15:15:40Z

Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 04:08:22PM CET, parav@mellanox.com wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
>> Sent: Friday, November 8, 2019 4:45 AM
>> To: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
>> Cc: alex.williamson@redhat.com; davem@davemloft.net;
>> kvm@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Saeed Mahameed
>> <saeedm@mellanox.com>; kwankhede@nvidia.com; leon@kernel.org;
>> cohuck@redhat.com; Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>; linux-
>> rdma@vger.kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 19/19] mtty: Optionally support mtty alias
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>> Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 05:08:34PM CET, parav@mellanox.com wrote:
>> >Provide a module parameter to set alias length to optionally generate
>> >mdev alias.
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>> >Example to request mdev alias.
>> >$ modprobe mtty alias_length=12
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>> >Make use of mtty_alias() API when alias_length module parameter is set.
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>> >Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
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>> This patch looks kind of unrelated to the rest of the set.
>> I think that you can either:
>> 1) send this patch as a separate follow-up to this patchset
>> 2) use this patch as a user and push out the mdev alias patches out of this
>> patchset to a separate one (I fear that this was discussed and declined
>> before).
>Yes, we already discussed to run mdev 5-6 patches as pre-patch before this series when reviewed on kvm mailing list.
>Alex was suggesting to package with this series as mlx5_core being the first user.
>Series will have conflict (not this patch) if Jason Wang's series [9] is merged first.
>So please let me know how shall we do it.

Just remove this patch from the set and push it later on individually
(if ever).

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>[9] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1190425
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