Re: [PATCH v8 00/28] Drivers for gunyah hypervisor

From: Alex Elder
Date: Tue Jan 17 2023 - 15:42:53 EST


On 1/10/23 3:47 PM, Elliot Berman wrote:

I haven't looked at the earlier reviews; perhaps the RFC stuff
was requested.  I'm sure it's useful to see that but it doesn't
seem directly helpful if your goal is to get this code upstream.


Right, the RFC patches were requested. Do you have a recommendation for sharing those later patches? I understand it's best practice not to post too many patches. The logical split was to have 1-20 go in first, and the remaining patches submitted later.

If they're RFC they should be tagged "RFC".

I do think it's easier for reviewers if you can divide up the
code into a few smaller series, so reviewing each (sub-)series
isn't such an overwhelming thing to consider. I've started
looking (IN GREAT DETAIL) the RPC core code, and haven't gone
much past that, so I don't have any guidance about how things
could be structured. (I do appreciate that the early patches
were small, and built things up gradually.)

I personally try to keep my series to closer to 5-10 patches,
though the maintainer(s) involved need to agree to accept the
smaller series before the full functionality gets enabled when
it's all accepted.

You'll get (lots) more feedback from me on the remaining patches,
eventually. If you decide to re-spin things soon I'd like to know
your plan so I can review the latest when it's available.

-Alex