linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Introduce some interfaces for ACRN hypervisor HSM driver

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Date:   Tue, 14 Sep 2021 08:59:58 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Fei Li <fei1.li@...el.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yu1.wang@...el.com,
        shuox.liu@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Introduce some interfaces for ACRN hypervisor HSM
 driver

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 02:26:25PM +0800, Fei Li wrote:
> Add some new interfaces for ACRN hypervisor HSM driver:
>   - MMIO device passthrough
>   - virtual device creating/destroying
>   - platform information fetching from the hypervisor
> 
> ChangeLog:
> v4:
>  - remove "RFC" from Subject field.
> 
> v3:
>  - remove "platform information fetching from the hypervisor". What platform
>    information needs to be fetched has not been finally decided. Will send tis
>    patch out once that has been decided.
>  - add comments where is the userspace code that uses this new api:
>    - MMIO device passthrough
>      (a) assign a MMIO device to a User VM
>      https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor/blob/master/devicemodel/core/vmmapi.c#L562
>      (b) de-assign a MMIO device from a User VM
>      https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor/blob/master/devicemodel/core/vmmapi.c#L568
>    - virtual device creating/destroying
>      (a) create a virtual device for a User VM
>      https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor/blob/master/devicemodel/core/vmmapi.c#L606
>      (b) destroy a virtual device of a User VM
>      https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor/blob/master/devicemodel/core/vmmapi.c#L612

Can you put these comments in the changelog text?  Stuff in the 0/X
email never shows up in the changelog at all.

thanks,

greg k-h