[PATCH 1/3] drm/i915/gvt: Move mdev attribute groups into kvmgt module

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at ziepe.ca
Thu May 13 12:02:49 UTC 2021


On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:56:47PM +0800, Zhenyu Wang wrote:
> On 2021.05.12 09:47:39 -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 10:31:41AM +0800, Zhenyu Wang wrote:
> > 
> > > > This need to go into the vfio tree in some way, either directly
> > > > through it, via rc or otherwise
> > > 
> > > As this is only for i915/gvt, once drm/i915 backmerge with linus master,
> > > it should still go through normal i915/gvt merge path.
> > 
> > Don't do this, you will create conflicts with ongoing vfio work.
> > 
> 
> Sure, there always could be conflict, which means you need to rebase onto
> this cleanup. Would that a problem? 

Yes.

> I'd want to fix current workaround in 5.13-rc.

This doesn't seem like a rc candiate to me, but going to -rc is also
fine.

> Merging i915/gvt only change through vfio doesn't make sense to me,

You need to do it to avoid major conflicts for stuff that will go into
the vfio tree this cycle.

VFIO drivers should not be outside drivers/vfio/ in the first place,
and this shows why.

Jason


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