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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/47] Address Space Isolation for KVM
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To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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From:   Junaid Shahid <junaids@google.com>
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On 3/16/22 15:49, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Junaid,
> 
> On Tue, Feb 22 2022 at 21:21, Junaid Shahid wrote:
>>
>> The patches apply on top of Linux v5.16.
> 
> Why are you posting patches against some randomly chosen release?
> 
> Documentation/process/ is pretty clear about how this works. It's not
> optional.

Sorry, I assumed that for an RFC, it may be acceptable to base on the last release version, but looks like I guessed wrong. I will base the next version of the RFC on the HEAD of the Linus tree.

> 
>> These patches are also available via
>> gerrit at https://linux-review.googlesource.com/q/topic:asi-rfc.
> 
> This is useful because?
> 
> If you want to provide patches in a usable form then please expose them
> as git tree which can be pulled and not via the random tool of the day.

The patches are now available as the branch "asi-rfc-v1" in the git repo https://github.com/googleprodkernel/linux-kvm.git

Thanks,
Junaid

> 
> Thanks,
> 
>          tglx
> 
>