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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 00/40] Add AMD Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) Guest
 Support
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To:     Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>, x86@kernel.org,
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From:   Brijesh Singh <brijesh.singh@amd.com>
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On 12/10/21 2:17 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> On 12/10/21 7:42 AM, Brijesh Singh wrote:
>> The series is based on tip/master
>>   7f32a31b0a34 (origin/master, origin/HEAD) Merge branch into tip/master: 'core/entry'
> FWIW, this is rather useless since tip/master gets rebased all the time.
>  Also, being a merge commit, it's rather impossible to even infer which
> commit this might have been near.
>
> Personally, I like to take my series', tag them, then throw them out in
> a public git tree somewhere.  That has two advantages.  First, it makes
> it easy for a reviewer to look at the series as a whole in its applied
> state.  Second, it makes it utterly trivial to figure out where the
> series was based because the entire history is there.  The entire
> history will be there even if you based it off some tip branch that got
> rebased away since.

I thought I mentioned this in the cover letter, but I missed including
the below information.

The full tree is available here:
https://github.com/AMDESE/linux/tree/sev-snp-v8

-Brijesh