netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/21] mm: Allow DMA mapping of pages which are not online

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Message-ID: <20200727055813.GA1503@lst.de>
Date:   Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:58:13 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, hch@....de,
        robin.murphy@....com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, willemb@...gle.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, steffen.klassert@...unet.com,
        saeedm@...lanox.com, maximmi@...lanox.com, bjorn.topel@...el.com,
        magnus.karlsson@...el.com, borisp@...lanox.com, david@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 03/21] mm: Allow DMA mapping of pages which are
 not online

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:28:28PM -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote:
> Change the system RAM check from 'valid' to 'online', so dummy
> pages which refer to external DMA resources can be mapped.


NAK.  This looks completely bogus.  Maybe you do have a good reason
somewhere (although I doubt it), but then you'd actualy need to both
explain it here, and also actually make sure I get the whole damn series.

Until you fix up how you send these stupid partial cc lists I'll just
ignore this crap.