[PATCH v2 04/23] virtio: Add get_shm_region method

[Gurchetan Singh]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 2:28 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 11:27 AM Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 09:13:11AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 9:04 AM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 05:00:25PM -0700, Gurchetan Singh wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 3:15 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Gurchetan,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Now Miklos has queued, these tree virtio patches for shared
> memory
> > > > > > region in his tree as part of virtiofs dax patch series.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am hoping this will get merged in 5.10 through his tree.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse.git/log/?h=dax
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Terrific ... !  Maybe we can queue the version Miklos has in
> drm-misc-next
> > > > > to avoid merge conflicts ?!?
> > > >
> > > > I guess it would either be merging the fuse tree into drm-misc-next,
> > > > or cherry-picking the three virtio shm patches from the fuse tree.
> > >
> > > Maybe cleanest if we'd do a separate branch for the virtio patches and
> > > pull that into both the fuse-next and the drm-misc-next trees?
> >
> > +1
> >
> > If the trees are more closely related (e.g. drm and v4l or so) then
> > occasionally we just merge patches into one tree with acks from all the
> > other maintainers. But topic branch for the common bits feels better
> here.
> >
> > Please send the topic pull request to drm-misc maintainers (Maarten,
> > Maxime, Thomas) so they can pull it in.
>

That sounds like an excellent plan !

I will send out blob v3 (incorporating kraxel@'s feedback) once the topic
pull request (it seems Miklos will do this?) for the shm region patches has
been merged into drm-misc-next.


>
> Works better when I add them :-)
> -Daniel
>
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> > Daniel Vetter
> > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> > http://blog.ffwll.ch
>
>
>
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> Daniel Vetter
> Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
> http://blog.ffwll.ch
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