netdev - Re: [PATCH v13 vfio 0/7] pds-vfio-pci driver

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Message-ID: <20230726125051.424ed592.alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:50:51 -0600
From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc: Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@....com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, yishaih@...dia.com,
 shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com, kevin.tian@...el.com,
 simon.horman@...igine.com, shannon.nelson@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 vfio 0/7] pds-vfio-pci driver

On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 10:35:06 -0300
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 02:40:18PM -0700, Brett Creeley wrote:
> 
> > Note: This series is based on the latest linux-next tree. I did not base
> > it on the Alex Williamson's vfio/next because it has not yet pulled in
> > the latest changes which include the pds_vdpa driver. The pds_vdpa
> > driver has conflicts with the pds-vfio-pci driver that needed to be
> > resolved, which is why this series is based on the latest linux-next
> > tree.  
> 
> This is not the right way to handle this, Alex cannot apply a series
> against linux-next.
> 
> If you can't make a shared branch and the conflicts are too
> significant to forward to Linus then you have to wait for the next
> cycle.

Brett, can you elaborate on what's missing from my next branch vs
linux-next?

AFAICT the pds_vdpa driver went into mainline via a8d70602b186 ("Merge
tag 'for_linus' of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost") during the
v6.5 merge window and I'm not spotting anything in linux-next obviously
relevant to pds-vfio-pci since then.

There's a debugfs fix on the list, but that's sufficiently trivial to
fixup on merge if necessary.  This series also applies cleanly vs my
current next branch.  Was the issue simply that I hadn't updated my
next branch (done yesterday) since the v6.5 merge window?  You can
always send patches vs mainline.  Thanks,

Alex