On 07/16/2014 11:16 AM, Gavin Shan wrote:
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:09:44AM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
On 07/16/2014 10:20 AM, Gavin Shan wrote:
This updates kernel header (vfio.h) for EEH support on VFIO PCI
devices.
Has this reached kernel upstream? The way linux headers update normally
happens is you have to run scripts/update-linux-headers.sh against some
linux kernel tag which you know that it won't change (like v3.16-rc5) and
post all the changes as a single patch. It is never a header update for a
specific feature, it is just an update.
The kernel part isn't merged yet. I guess that's for 3.17 merge window.
Ok, good to know scripts/update-linux-headers.sh. So this patch should
be dropped and some one run the script to update QEMU (linux-headers
directory) ?
Once your changes are in upstream kernel, you wait till kernel tree gets
new "v3.xx-rcX" tag, then you run the script and make a separate patch for
QEMU. Then you wait till it reaches QEMU upstream (because I do not know
who will pull it to what tree, look at git history) or ppc-next (if Alex
pulls it and you are basing your work on ppc-next) and then repost other
patches.