Hi David, > -----Original Message----- > From: David Marchand <david.march...@redhat.com> > Sent: Saturday, April 18, 2020 17:22 > To: Wang, Haiyue <haiyue.w...@intel.com>; Vamsi Attunuru > <vattun...@marvell.com>; > alex.william...@redhat.com > Cc: dev <dev@dpdk.org>; Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>; Jerin Jacob > Kollanukkaran > <jer...@marvell.com> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/2] support for VFIO-PCI VF token interface > > Thanks a lot for working on this. > > I can see the support on the kernel side has been pulled in what will be 5.7. > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fb732b33b0f4d73f391066c > 0a970b942c600dab > > I'd like to get the dpdk support in 20.05, but for this, can I have a > summary of the kernel discussions? > Is there anything missing/still wip in the kernel? > > > On the series itself, I did not look in detail, but there is no > documentation on how to use the feature. > We are missing a release note update.
If needed in 20.05, I can add it in release note. And about how to, I just added it in commit message, and some comments in the API ' rte_vfio_setup_device '. Not sure which document part is reasonable for adding this, any good suggestion ? > And a small comment on the last changes: > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:26 AM Haiyue Wang <haiyue.w...@intel.com> wrote: > > > > v6: Drop the Fixes tag in uuid, since the file has been > > moved to another place, not suitable to apply on stable. > > This is *not* a reason to drop the Fixes: tag. > Hopefully, we still fix bugs once files have been moved. > OK, will add the tag later. > > And this is not a bug, just some kind of enhancement. > > But on this point, I suppose this is ok not to backport. > > > -- > David Marchand
