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Date:   Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:59:34 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     Xuan Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/8] virtio_net: refactor xdp codes

On Tue, 21 Mar 2023 23:53:52 -0400 Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Would it make sense to merge this one through the virtio tree?  
> > 
> > There are some small problems that we merge this patch-set to Virtio Tree
> > directly.
> 
> what exactly? is there a dependency on net-next?

XDP is very actively developed, this seems like a bad idea :(

Is there a problem? Is it because the RFC was not getting much
attention? RFCs are for interesting code, really, nobody was 
interested 🤷️ When it comes to merging - it will be in the tree
in two days if nobody finds bugs...