From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753002AbaJGGpv (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2014 02:45:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:23691 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752654AbaJGGpt (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Oct 2014 02:45:49 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 09:49:15 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: David Miller Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/16] virtio_net: drop config_enable Message-ID: <20141007064915.GA2424@redhat.com> References: <1412525038-15871-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <1412525038-15871-9-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <20141006.150238.2180269239953265506.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141006.150238.2180269239953265506.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 03:02:38PM -0400, David Miller wrote: > From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" > Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2014 19:07:13 +0300 > > > Now that virtio core ensures config changes don't arrive during probing, > > drop config_enable flag in virtio net. > > On removal, flush is now sufficient to guarantee that no change work is > > queued. > > > > This help simplify the driver, and will allow setting DRIVER_OK earlier > > without losing config change notifications. > > > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin > > It's hard for people on the networking side to review these changes > since you haven't CC:'d them on any of the postings necessary to > understand the context of the net/ and drivers/net/ changes. > > Please at a minimum CC: everyone on your header [PATCH 0/N] posting > so we know at least at a high level what is going on, and why. > > Thanks. It's a bit tricky for large patchsets - if I add everyone to 0/N then vger isn't happy with Cc list that is too large. What is your advice here? Cc just mailing lists on 0/N? FWIW this patchset is inteded for the virtio tree. -- MST