Re: [PATCH v3 00/41] cxlflash: OCXL transport support and miscellaneous fixes

On Mar 28, 2018, at 4:34 PM, Martin K. Petersen =

[off-list ref] wrote:

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Uma,
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This patch series adds OCXL support to the cxlflash driver. With this
support, new devices using the OCXL transport will be supported by =

the

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cxlflash driver along with the existing CXL devices. An effort is =

made

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to keep this transport specific function independent of the existing
core driver that communicates with the AFU.
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The first three patches contain a minor fix and staging improvements.
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This series is intended for 4.17 and is bisectable.

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Something this big really needs to be submitted around rc2/rc3. It's =

way

too late in the cycle to ensure proper zeroday coverage for all these
commits.
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I have started a 4.18/scsi-queue branch to hold this series for now.
The 4.18 branch will be rebased once 4.17rc1 is out in a few weeks. =

Your

changes won't show up in for-next until then either.

I did send the first version of this series just after 4.16rc2 but the =
reviews took a while and the V3 is cutting close unless we do have an =
rc8 for 4.16 :)

I understand what you are saying and agree with you. Thanks for keeping =
me posted.=