Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] misc: vmw_zerocopy: Add VMware zero-copy buffer sharing driver

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 01:22:07PM -0700, Rishi Chhibber wrote:
> Summary of changes:
> - Add drivers/misc/vmw_zerocopy_core.c: the misc character device
>   /dev/vmw_zc, its single ioctl, page pinning and PFN collection
> - Add drivers/misc/vmw_zerocopy_vmci.c: the VMCI datagram transport backend
> - Add drivers/misc/vmw_zerocopy_priv.h: the wire-format message structs and
>   the struct vmw_zc_transport_ops interface that joins the two
> - Add include/uapi/linux/vmw_zerocopy.h: struct vmw_zc_guest_message and
>   VMW_ZC_IOCTL_MSG
> - Register ioctl magic 0xDC in
>   Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> - Add the VMW_ZC Kconfig symbol and a MAINTAINERS entry

This all goes below the --- line, right?  Otherwise it would show up in
the changelog which doesn't make sense :(

The kernel documentation should explain all of this, how did this pass
internal review?

thanks,

greg k-h