Date:   Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:48:51 +0100
From:   Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
To:     Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net,
        netdev@vger.kernel.org, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>,
        Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>,
        Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>,
        Christian Schoenebeck <linux_oss@crudebyte.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] 9p/xen: fix connection sequence
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On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 12:30:36PM +0100, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Today the connection sequence of the Xen 9pfs frontend doesn't match
> the documented sequence. It can work reliably only for a PV 9pfs device
> having been added at boot time already, as the frontend is not waiting
> for the backend to have set its state to "XenbusStateInitWait" before
> reading the backend properties from Xenstore.
> 
> Fix that by following the documented sequence [1] (the documentation
> has a bug, so the reference is for the patch fixing that).
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/xen-devel/20230130090937.31623-1-jgross@suse.com/T/#u
> 
> Fixes: 868eb122739a ("xen/9pfs: introduce Xen 9pfs transport driver")
> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

It's unclear if this series is targeted at 'net' or 'net-next'.
FWIIW, I feel I feel it would be more appropriate for the latter
as these do not feel like bug fixes: feel free to differ on that.

Regardless,

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>