Messages in this thread | | | From | KY Srinivasan <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] [repost] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Offload the handling of channels to two workqueues | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:31:16 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> > Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2018 12:17 AM > To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org > Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>; Haiyang Zhang > <haiyangz@microsoft.com>; Stephen Hemminger > <sthemmin@microsoft.com>; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; apw@canonical.com; vkuznets > <vkuznets@redhat.com>; olaf@aepfle.de; jasowang@redhat.com; Michael > Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> > Subject: RE: [PATCH] [repost] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Offload the handling of > channels to two workqueues > > > From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 11:45 PM > > > > > > There is no change in this repost. I just rebased this patch to today's > > > char-misc's char-misc-next branch. Previously KY posted the patch with > his > > > Signed-off-by (which is kept in this repost), but there was a conflict issue. > > > > > > Note: the patch can't be cleanly applied to char-misc's char-misc-linus > branch > > -- > > > to do that, we need to cherry-pick the supporting patch first: > > > 4d3c5c69191f ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Remove the useless API > > vmbus_get_outgoing_channel()") > > > > That is not going to work for the obvious reason that this dependant > > patch is not going to be merged into 4.20-final. > > It looks the dependent patch (4d3c5c69191f) is going to miss the v4.20 > release. > This is not a big issue, as the dependent patch isn't really important. > > > So, what do you expect us to do here? The only way this can be accepted > > is to have it go into my -next branch, which means it will show up in > > 4.21-rc1, is that ok? > > Is there any chance for this patch ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: Offload the handling > ...") to > go into v4.20? > > If yes, I can quickly do a rebase to char-misc's char-misc-linus branch, > because actually the conflict can be very easily fixed. And I can help to fix any > conflict when the dependent patch is backported to v4.20.1.
This patch fixes an important bug while the patch this depends on is not critical. I suggest we revert the patch that this patch depends on and we can submit a new version of this patch that can go in now - into 4.20 release.
K. Y
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