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

[Jag Raman]

> 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?

--
Jag

> 
> Thomas
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