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QPN6PNtH9gBpM4YonjANpouDDE+9byQFixw3G6cmGjMWO9xsQM5BFU9vGfaNwHK8IliBF7QETaBsB5Mlnre6Gu0y171TM27USrvoRBMrjtM= X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: SA1PR11MB8279 X-OriginatorOrg: intel.com Hi Boris and Babu, On 5/6/26 8:28 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, May 06, 2026 at 10:01:35AM -0500, Moger, Babu wrote: >> The patches look good overall. Just one small note: I was testing v6 and >> noticed that v7 has already been posted. It would be helpful to leave a few >> days between versions unless you’re trying to make the merge window. > > Not even then. There's always the next merge window. > > People need to get rid of this "let's rush half-baked shit in" thinking just > because the merge window is approaching. When it is approaching and your > patches have not been queued yet, then they should be postponed for the next > one. > Ben is not rushing this work and has indeed been patiently addressing feedback. I considered this series to indeed be close to ready during the previous cycle but instead of rushing the polishing was left for this cycle. v7 closely followed v6 since we felt v6 was ready for inclusion but contained an unfortunate typo (missing a "---" in changelog). v7 was thus submitted shortly to ensure we pass a clean series to x86 maintainers for consideration. This is an instance where a brand new reviewer appears to a series after all patches have RB tag. I welcome and appreciate all reviews and it would be great to see more such collaboration to general resctrl and earlier in review cycles. In this case I do not believe this criticism about this work being half-baked and rushed is justified. Reinette