netdev - Re: [PATCH 02/22] um: virt-pci: drop owner assignment

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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:40:33 +0100
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/22] um: virt-pci: drop owner assignment

On 27/03/2024 14:34, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 13:40 +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> virtio core already sets the .owner, so driver does not need to.
> 
>> All further patches depend on the first virtio patch, therefore please ack
>> and this should go via one tree: virtio?
> 
> Sure. Though it's not really actually necessary, you can set it in the
> core and merge the other patches in the next cycle; those drivers that
> _have_ an .owner aren't broken after all.
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>

True, this can be spread over two cycles. What I wanted to express, is
that maintainers should not pick individual patches.

Thanks for the Ack and apologies for a bit too big CC-list. I need to
learn how to ask b4 to make Cc-per-patch for such case.

Best regards,
Krzysztof