Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] Introduce some interfaces for ACRN hypervisor HSM driver

From: Li Fei1
Date: Tue Sep 14 2021 - 21:44:13 EST


On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 08:59:58AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 02:26:25PM +0800, Fei Li wrote:
> > Add some new interfaces for ACRN hypervisor HSM driver:
> > - MMIO device passthrough
> > - virtual device creating/destroying
> > - platform information fetching from the hypervisor
> >
> > ChangeLog:
> > v4:
> > - remove "RFC" from Subject field.
> >
> > v3:
> > - remove "platform information fetching from the hypervisor". What platform
> > information needs to be fetched has not been finally decided. Will send tis
> > patch out once that has been decided.
> > - add comments where is the userspace code that uses this new api:
> > - MMIO device passthrough
> > (a) assign a MMIO device to a User VM
> > https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor/blob/master/devicemodel/core/vmmapi.c#L562
> > (b) de-assign a MMIO device from a User VM
> > https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor/blob/master/devicemodel/core/vmmapi.c#L568
> > - virtual device creating/destroying
> > (a) create a virtual device for a User VM
> > https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor/blob/master/devicemodel/core/vmmapi.c#L606
> > (b) destroy a virtual device of a User VM
> > https://github.com/projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor/blob/master/devicemodel/core/vmmapi.c#L612
>
> Can you put these comments in the changelog text? Stuff in the 0/X
> email never shows up in the changelog at all.

Hi Greg

What's the "changelog text" mean ? Would you please tell how could I do this ?
I see peoples always describe what does their patches change in the cover letter
(the 0/X email).

thanks.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h