On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 09:12:27AM -0500, Rorie Reyes wrote: Hi Rorie, > On 2/6/25 2:40 AM, Alexander Gordeev wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 05, 2025 at 12:47:55PM -0500, Anthony Krowiak wrote: > > > > > How this patch is synchronized with the mentioned QEMU series? > > > > > What is the series status, especially with the comment from Cédric > > > > > Le Goater [1]? > > > > > > > > > > 1. https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250107184354.91079-1-rreyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#mb0d37909c5f69bdff96289094ac0bad0922a7cce ... > > > I don't think that is what Alex was asking. I believe he is asking how the > > > QEMU and kernel patch series are going to be synchronized. > > > Given the kernel series changes a value in vfio.h which is used by QEMU, the > > > two series need to be coordinated since the vfio.h file > > > used by QEMU can not be updated until the kernel code is available. So these > > > two sets of code have > > > to be merged upstream during a merge window. which is different for the > > > kernel and QEMU. At least I think that is what Alex is asking. > > Correct. > > Thanks for the clarification, Anthony! > > Tony, thank you for the back up! > > Alexander, is there anything else you need from my end for clarification? The original question still stays - is it safe to pull this patch now, before the corresponding QEMU change is integrated? Thanks!