Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] update-linux-headers: sync-up header with Linux for KVM AIA support placeholder

[Cornelia Huck]

On Fri, Jun 30 2023, Daniel Henrique Barboza <dbarboza@ventanamicro.com> wrote:

> On 6/21/23 11:54, Yong-Xuan Wang wrote:
>> Sync-up Linux header to get latest KVM RISC-V headers having AIA support.
>> 
>> Note: This is a placeholder commit and could be replaced when all referenced 
>> Linux patchsets are mainlined.
>> 
>> The linux-headers changes are from 2 different patchsets.
>> [1] 
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230404153452.2405681-1-apatel@ventanamicro.com/
>> [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg4791872.html
>
>
> It looks like Anup sent a PR for [2] for Linux 6.5. IIUC this would be then a 
> 6.5
> linux-header update.
>
> In this case I'm not sure whether we can pick this up for QEMU 8.1 (code 
> freeze is
> July 10th) since we can't keep a 6.5 placeholder header. I'll let Alistair 
> comment
> on that.

My crystal ball says that we'll have Linux 6.5-rc1 on July 9th, which
is... probably too late, given the need for a repost with a proper
headers update etc. (I'd generally prefer not to do the headers update
on a random middle-of-the-merge-window commit...)