Re: [PATCH v13 22/22] docs: vfio: Add vfio device cdev description

Jason Gunthorpe
2023-06-28T12:34:48Z

On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 01:10:11AM +0000, Liu, Yi L wrote:
> > From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 1:35 AM
>
> [The Cc list gets broken in the reply from Alex to Jason, here I reply to
> Alex's email with the Cc list fixed. @Alex, seems like the same symptom
> with last time, do you have any idea on it?]

It is weird...

> > Are you suggesting a post-merge-window pull request for v6.5 (also
> > frowned on) or are you suggesting that it simmers in both our next
> > branches until v6.6? Thanks,
>
> It appears to me the latter one. When 6.5-rc1 is released, we immediately
> apply the hot-reset and cdev series onto it and put it in a shared tree to
> assist the other iommufd feature development (e.g. nesting). Jason, is it?

Yes, no reason to try to bend the rules with Linus at this point

Jason