Re: [PATCH 5.10 10/98] vdpa: Define vdpa mgmt device, ops and a netlink interface

[Sasha Levin]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 08:54:52PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > From: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ 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.

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Thanks,
Sasha