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Message-ID: <20231204103559.GAZW2rj9obaooeqxWA@fat_crate.local>
Date:   Mon, 4 Dec 2023 11:35:59 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@...are.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, virtualization@...ts.linux.dev,
        hpa@...or.com, dave.hansen@...ux.intel.co, bp@...en8.d,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] x86/vmware: Introduce vmware_hypercall API

On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 03:24:48PM -0800, Alexey Makhalov wrote:
> Introducing vmware_hypercall family of functions as a common
> implementation to be used by the VMware guest code and virtual
> device drivers in architecture independent manner.
> 
> By analogy with KVM hypercall API, vmware_hypercallX and
> vmware_hypercall_hb_{out,in} set of functions was added to
> achieve that. Architecture specific implementation should be
> hidden inside.

Pls read section "2) Describe your changes" in
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for more details on how to
formulate your commit messages.

Also, see section "Changelog" in Documentation/process/maintainer-tip.rst

More specifically:

"Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do frotz"
instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] changed xyzzy
to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to change
its behaviour."

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette