From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>,
mdf@kernel.org, linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lgoncalv@redhat.com,
hao.wu@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] UIO support for dfl devices
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 18:10:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <X9uRHzCyS1FNw4e6@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85d48e41-0185-0938-b0ed-93d0f825e761@redhat.com>
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 05:35:51AM -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
>
> On 12/16/20 9:44 PM, Xu Yilun wrote:
> > This patchset supports some dfl device drivers written in userspace.
> >
> > In the patchset v1, the "driver_override" interface should be used to bind
> > the DFL UIO driver to DFL devices. But there is concern that the
> > "driver_override" interface is not OK itself. So in v2, we use a new
> > matching algorithem. The "driver_override" interface is abandoned, the DFL
> > UIO driver matches any DFL device which could not be handled by other DFL
> > drivers. So the DFL UIO driver could be used for new DFL devices which are
> > not supported by kernel, also it will not impact the devices which are
> > already got supported.
>
> This set looks good to me.
>
> Moritz,
>
> Is it possible to get this into 5.11 ?
How would that be possible?
New features have to be in linux-next successfully, _BEFORE_ the merge
window opens. Please read Documentation/process/ for how we do all of
this...
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-17 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-17 5:44 [PATCH v3 0/3] UIO support for dfl devices Xu Yilun
2020-12-17 5:44 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] fpga: dfl: add the match() ops for dfl driver Xu Yilun
2020-12-17 13:23 ` Tom Rix
2020-12-17 5:44 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] fpga: dfl: add the userspace I/O device support for DFL devices Xu Yilun
2020-12-17 13:25 ` Tom Rix
2020-12-18 8:05 ` Wu, Hao
2020-12-18 13:59 ` Tom Rix
2020-12-21 2:44 ` Wu, Hao
2020-12-21 3:33 ` Xu Yilun
2020-12-21 6:23 ` Wu, Hao
2020-12-17 5:44 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] Documentation: fpga: dfl: Add description for DFL UIO support Xu Yilun
2020-12-17 13:26 ` Tom Rix
2020-12-17 13:35 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] UIO support for dfl devices Tom Rix
2020-12-17 17:10 ` Greg KH [this message]
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