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From:   "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Date:   Tue, 3 Jan 2023 18:30:52 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 1/7] x86: lib: Separate instruction decoder MMIO type
 from MMIO trace
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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        "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos@redhat.com>,
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On Tue, Jan 3, 2023 at 6:29 PM Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 06:00:46PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > I guess you missed the conversation with Borislav yesterday about that.
> > > He mentioned that I'd just take it through random.git when this whole
> > > series goes in.
> >
> > Please base your tree off on tip:x86/asm then (or pull it in) - it only
>
> My idea was a lot simpler: avoid the tree inter-dependency by us acking this
> patch so that it can go through the random.git tree.

Indeed I would prefer this.

Or... just put this in 6.2 because it's trivial anyway? Heck, even
mark it as stable@ so make future backporting easier. Then it'll meet
tip's urgent criteria.

Jason