Re: [PATCH RESEND net 0/7] There are some bugfix for the HNS3 ethernet driver
From: Simon Horman
Date: Tue Nov 12 2024 - 15:33:54 EST
On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 09:30:16PM +0800, Jijie Shao wrote:
> There's a series of bugfix that's been accepted:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=d80a3091308491455b6501b1c4b68698c4a7cd24
>
> However, The series is making the driver poke into IOMMU internals instead of
> implementing appropriate IOMMU workarounds. After discussion, the series was reverted:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net.git/commit/?id=249cfa318fb1b77eb726c2ff4f74c9685f04e568
>
> But only two patches are related to the IOMMU.
> Other patches involve only the modification of the driver.
> This series resends other patches.
Hi Jijie Shao,
Cover letters for patch-sets for Networking do make it into git history,
e.g. This cover letter [1] became this commit [2]. So please consider a
subject that will be more meaningful there.
e.g. [PATCH net v2 0/7] net: hns3: implement IOMMU workarounds
Thanks!
[1] [PATCH net v2 0/3] virtio/vsock: Fix memory leaks
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20241107-vsock-mem-leaks-v2-0-4e21bfcfc818@xxxxxxx/
[2] 20bbe5b80249 ("Merge branch 'virtio-vsock-fix-memory-leaks'")
https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/20bbe5b80249
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