Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Improve s0ix flows for systems i219LM

[Alexander Duyck]

On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:49 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 14:38:03 -0800 Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > > > The patches look good to me. Just need to address the minor issue that
> > > > seems to have been present prior to the introduction of this patch
> > > > set.
> > > >
> > > > Reviewed-by: Alexander Duyck <alexanderduyck@xxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Thanks for your review.  Just some operational questions - since this previously
> > > existed do you want me to re-spin the series to a v4 for this, or should it be
> > > a follow up after the series?
> > >
> > > If I respin it, would you prefer that change to occur at the start or end
> > > of the series?
> >
> > I don't need a respin, but if you are going to fix it you should
> > probably put out the patch as something like a 8/7. If you respin it
> > should happen near the start of the series as it is a bug you are
> > addressing.
>
> Don't we need that patch to be before this series so it can be
> back ported easily? Or is it not really a bug?

You're right. For backports it would make it easier to have the patch
be before the changes. As far as being a bug, it is one, but it isn't
an urgent bug as it is basically some bad exception handling so the
likelihood of seeing it should be quite low.