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Date:	Mon, 13 May 2013 13:36:59 -0400
From:	Christopher Covington <cov@...eaurora.org>
To:	Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@...aro.org>
CC:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	"linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Anup Patel <anup.patel@...aro.org>,
	Patch Tracking <patches@...aro.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>,
	"kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu" <kvmarm@...ts.cs.columbia.edu>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 2/3] Documentation: virtio: Add emergency write (emerg_wr)
 config register in virtio console.

Hi Pranavkumar,

On 05/13/2013 02:56 AM, Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
> 
> On 13 May 2013 08:22, Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au> wrote:
>> Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@...aro.org> writes:
>>> Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <pranavkumar@...aro.org>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <anup.patel@...aro.org>
>>> ---
>>>  Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt |    8 +++++++-
>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> OK, I applied this to the lyx master, with three changes:
>> 1) Changed "filed" to "field".
>> 2) Added ", or even acknowledging the feature" after "without
>>    initializing virtio queues".
>> 3) Added an initial point to the Device Initialization section:
>>
>>    1. If the VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_EMERG_WRITE feature is offered, the
>>    emerg_wr field of the configuration can be written at any time. Thus
>>    it should work for very early boot debugging output as well as
>>    catastophic OS failures (eg. virtio ring corruption).
> 
> Thanks for applying this patch.
> Have you also applied first patch ([PATCH V2 1/3] virtio: console: Add
> emergency writeonly register to config space)
> with this?  (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/6/169)

You seem to have omitted copying virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
the mailing list documented in the MAINTAINERS file as appropriate for changes
relating to the virtio console driver.

[...]

Christopher

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