From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>,
Wang Yu <yu1.wang@intel.com>, Liu Shuo <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "mei: virtio: virtualization frontend driver"
Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2020 10:36:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <X8ymO1vqGdMo7Uj1@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201205193625.469773-1-mst@redhat.com>
On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 02:38:46PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> This reverts commit d162219c655c8cf8003128a13840d6c1e183fb80.
> The device uses a VIRTIO device ID out of a not-for-production
> range. Releasing Linux using an ID out of this range will make
> it conflict with development setups. An official request to
> reserve an ID for an MEI device is yet to be submitted
> to the virtio TC, thus there's no chance it will be reserved
> and fixed in time before the next release.
>
> Once requested it usually takes 2-3 weeks to land in the spec, which
> means the device can be supported with the official ID in the next Linux
> version if contributors act quickly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Now applied, thanks.
greg k-h
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2020-12-05 19:38 [PATCH] Revert "mei: virtio: virtualization frontend driver" Michael S. Tsirkin
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