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On 4/21/2021 1:57 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 01:55:03PM -0500, Saripalli, RK wrote:
>> I separated them into separate patches because the KVM patch depends on one of the patch.
>> The corresponding QEMU patch depends on another patch.
>>
>> By separating them into 4 separate patches, my thinking was I could keep them logically separate.
> 
> Sure but they all go together through the same tree - why does that
> matter for Qemu/KVM?

Ok. I will combine all the 4 patches into one patch and resend that one patch.

Thanks,
RK
>