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davem@davemloft.net; > kvm@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org; Saeed Mahameed > ; kwankhede@nvidia.com; leon@kernel.org; > cohuck@redhat.com; Jiri Pirko ; linux- > rdma@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 19/19] mtty: Optionally support mtty alias >=20 > Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 05:08:34PM CET, parav@mellanox.com wrote: > >Provide a module parameter to set alias length to optionally generate > >mdev alias. > > > >Example to request mdev alias. > >$ modprobe mtty alias_length=3D12 > > > >Make use of mtty_alias() API when alias_length module parameter is set. > > > >Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit >=20 > This patch looks kind of unrelated to the rest of the set. > I think that you can either: > 1) send this patch as a separate follow-up to this patchset > 2) use this patch as a user and push out the mdev alias patches out of th= is > patchset to a separate one (I fear that this was discussed and declined > before). Yes, we already discussed to run mdev 5-6 patches as pre-patch before this = series when reviewed on kvm mailing list. Alex was suggesting to package with this series as mlx5_core being the firs= t user. Series will have conflict (not this patch) if Jason Wang's series [9] is me= rged first. So please let me know how shall we do it. [9] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1190425