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

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Message-ID: <b6c69eb6-f689-4ff8-bdc2-804e2a4b6c3e@huawei.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:21:27 +0800
From: Jijie Shao <shaojijie@...wei.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
CC: <shaojijie@...wei.com>, <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 2024/11/13 1:08, Simon Horman wrote:
> 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


Okay, no problem. I'll pay more attention to this.

Thanks
Jijie Shao

>
> 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
>
> ...