From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811DFC67790 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:20:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45D7220844 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:20:12 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 45D7220844 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729031AbeGYNbg (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:31:36 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:46744 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728942AbeGYNbf (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2018 09:31:35 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com [10.11.54.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 28577C324; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:20:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.123.162] (ovpn-123-162.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.123.162]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD941687E; Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:19:54 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v3] qemu: Add virtio pmem device To: Pankaj Gupta References: <20180713075232.9575-1-pagupta@redhat.com> <20180713075232.9575-4-pagupta@redhat.com> <783786ae-2e85-2376-448c-1e362c3d4d48@redhat.com> <399916154.53931292.1532494899706.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org, kwolf@redhat.com, haozhong zhang , jack@suse.cz, xiaoguangrong eric , riel@surriel.com, niteshnarayanlal@hotmail.com, david@redhat.com, ross zwisler , lcapitulino@redhat.com, hch@infradead.org, mst@redhat.com, stefanha@redhat.com, imammedo@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, dan j williams , nilal@redhat.com From: Eric Blake Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-ID: Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 07:19:53 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <399916154.53931292.1532494899706.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.11.54.5 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.1]); Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:20:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: inspected by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.11.55.1]); Wed, 25 Jul 2018 12:20:09 +0000 (UTC) for IP:'10.11.54.5' DOMAIN:'int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com' HELO:'smtp.corp.redhat.com' FROM:'eblake@redhat.com' RCPT:'' Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/25/2018 12:01 AM, Pankaj Gupta wrote: >> >> This patch has no n/M in the subject line; but is included in a thread >> that also has a 0/2 cover letter, as well as 1/2 and 2/2 patches in >> separate mails. Is that intentional? > > Yes, kernel series has 0-2 patches and Qemu has this one. I thought its > good to keep separate numbering for both the sets. Ah, that makes sense. The cover letter didn't make it obvious to me that this was two separate series to two projects, but related enough that both series have to be incorporated for the feature to work and thus cross-posted under a single cover letter. -- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org