linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] CXL updates for v6.19

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Message-ID: <170c89c8-ac37-4283-8a1c-6c7c442a1654@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:34:34 -0700
From: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>
To: Gregory Price <gourry@...rry.net>
Cc: Robert Richter <rrichter@....com>,
 Alison Schofield <alison.schofield@...el.com>,
 Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>, Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
 Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
 Jonathan Cameron <jonathan.cameron@...wei.com>,
 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>, linux-cxl@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 "Fabio M. De Francesco" <fabio.m.de.francesco@...ux.intel.com>,
 Terry Bowman <terry.bowman@....com>, Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] CXL updates for v6.19

On 11/13/25 8:32 AM, Gregory Price wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 08:20:59AM -0700, Dave Jiang wrote:
>> On 11/13/25 4:01 AM, Robert Richter wrote:
>>> On 12.11.25 14:45:28, Dave Jiang wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Additionally, patch 3/3 (@inc variable change) of this series also
>>> depends on patch 02/11 of v5 (store root decoder in in struct
>>> cxl_region). If you chose to pickup some patches from v5 first on top
>>> of cxl/next, then all this 3 patches should apply cleanly.
>>>
>>> Since 02/11 is one of the first patches and it sounded to me some of
>>> them will be applied as well, I would prefer that order to avoid
>>> rebasing and resubmitting a v6 for that. Let me know if you want to
>>> handle this differently.
>>
>> Hmmm....maybe I should just take the entire series hopefully next cycle when it's ready given all the dependencies?
> 
> As an active user of the Zen5 translation patch (I've been carrying
> backports Zen5 support for over a year), I would greatly prefer not
> to delay the Zen5 series for the sake of this series.

Well if we can have the series applies cleanly on 6.18-rc5 with all the needed review tags and all the outstanding concerns resolved next week, we can go this cycle. I'd like Dan to take a look if he has time though.

> 
> ~Gregory