Re: [PATCH 0/1] Update vfio-user module to the latest

[Jag Raman]

> On Sep 29, 2022, at 2:27 AM, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On 29/09/2022 03.52, Jag Raman wrote:
>>> On Aug 29, 2022, at 8:40 AM, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 07/08/2022 12.39, John Levon wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 09:24:56AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>> If we do add something as a submodule for some reason, I'd like us to
>>>>> say upfront that this is for a fixed time period (ie maximum of 3
>>>>> releases aka 1 year) only after which we'll remove it no matter what.
>>>> I'm not clear on the costs of having the submodule: could you please 
>>>> explain why
>>>> it's an issue exactly?
>>> 
>>> Some reasoning can be found here:
>>> 
>>> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/d7a7b28f-a665-2567-0fb6-e31e7ecbb5c8@redhat.com/
>>> 
>>>> I can only think of the flaky test issue (for which I'm
>>>> sorry).
>>> 
>>> Speaking of that test issue, yes, it would be good to get this patch 
>>> included now as soon as the 7.1 release has been done. Who's going to send 
>>> a pull request for this?
>> Now that QEMU 7.1 has released, could we please pull this patch in - just so 
>> no one else has a bad experience when testing?
> 
> You are listed as maintainer for subprojects/libvfio-user in the MAINTAINERS 
> file, so I guess you should just go ahead and send a pull request for this?

OK, will do.

Thank you!
--
Jag

> 
> Thomas
>