On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 03:24:05PM -0500, Anthony Krowiak wrote: > > > > On 2/11/25 10:02 AM, Rorie Reyes wrote: > > > > On 2/11/25 2:58 AM, Alexander Gordeev wrote: > > > 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? > > This patch has to be pulled before the QEMU patches are integrated. The > change to the > include/uapi/linux/vfio.h file needs to be merged before the QEMU version of > that file > can be generated for a QEMU build. I have given my r-b for this patch, so I > think it is > safe to pull it now. Ok, applied, thank you!