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

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 12:05:13 -0700
From: Brett Creeley <bcreeley@....com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
 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 7/26/2023 11:50 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
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> 
> 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,

Yeah, this was exactly it. Your vfio/next branch didn't have the 
pds_vdpa series in it yet, which also included some changes to the 
header files used by the pds-vfio-pci series, which is where the 
conflicts are.

Should I rebase my series on your vfio/next branch and resend?

Thanks,

Brett

> 
> Alex
>