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Date:   Tue, 24 Aug 2021 21:16:07 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>, Eli Cohen <elic@nvidia.com>,
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        "Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 10/98] vdpa: Define vdpa mgmt device, ops and a
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On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 08:54:52PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>Hi!
>
>> From: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 33b347503f014ebf76257327cbc7001c6b721956 ]
>>
>> To add one or more VDPA devices, define a management device which
>> allows adding or removing vdpa device. A management device defines
>> set of callbacks to manage vdpa devices.
>>
>> To begin with, it defines add and remove callbacks through which a user
>> defined vdpa device can be added or removed.
>
>This looks quite intrusive; is it meant to be in -stable, or is it
>some kind of mistake?

Looks like a mistake: I wanted to try and backport the vdpa patches that
are in 5.13, but gave up and forgot to drop these.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha