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charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 25.09.25 15:41, Sean Christopherson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2025, David Hildenbrand wrote: >> On 25.09.25 13:44, Garg, Shivank wrote: >>> On 9/25/2025 8:20 AM, Sean Christopherson wrote: >>> I did functional testing and it works fine. >> >> I can queue this instead. I guess I can reuse the patch description and add >> Sean as author + add his SOB (if he agrees). > > Eh, Ackerley and Fuad did all the work. If I had provided feedback earlier, > this would have been handled in a new version. If they are ok with the changes, > I would prefer they remain co-authors. Yeah, that's what I would have done. > > Regarding timing, how much do people care about getting this into 6.18 in > particular? I think it will be beneficial if we start getting stuff upstream. But waiting a bit longer probably doesn't hurt. > AFAICT, this hasn't gotten any coverage in -next, which makes me a > little nervous. Right. If we agree, then Shivank can just respin a new version after the merge window. -- Cheers David / dhildenb