linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RESEND net 0/7] There are some bugfix for the HNS3 ethernet driver

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Message-ID: <20241112170813.GS4507@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:08:13 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Jijie Shao <shaojijie@...wei.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
	pabeni@...hat.com, andrew+netdev@...n.ch, shenjian15@...wei.com,
	salil.mehta@...wei.com, liuyonglong@...wei.com,
	wangpeiyang1@...wei.com, chenhao418@...wei.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND net 0/7] There are some bugfix for the HNS3
 ethernet driver

On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 09:30:16PM +0800, Jijie Shao wrote:
> There's a series of bugfix that's been accepted:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=d80a3091308491455b6501b1c4b68698c4a7cd24
> 
> However, The series is making the driver poke into IOMMU internals instead of
> implementing appropriate IOMMU workarounds. After discussion, the series was reverted:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=249cfa318fb1b77eb726c2ff4f74c9685f04e568
> 
> But only two patches are related to the IOMMU.
> Other patches involve only the modification of the driver.
> This series resends other patches.

Hi Jijie Shao,

Cover letters for patch-sets for Networking do make it into git history,
e.g. This cover letter [1] became this commit [2]. So please consider a
subject that will be more meaningful there.

e.g. [PATCH net v2 0/7] net: hns3: implement IOMMU workarounds

Thanks!

[1] [PATCH net v2 0/3] virtio/vsock: Fix memory leaks
    https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241107-vsock-mem-leaks-v2-0-4e21bfcfc818@rbox.co/
[2] 20bbe5b80249 ("Merge branch 'virtio-vsock-fix-memory-leaks'")
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/20bbe5b80249

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