Re: [PATCH v6 01/11] linux-headers: Update to kernel headers to add venus capset

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 19 Dec 2023 at 13:49, Huang Rui <ray.huang@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 08:20:22PM +0800, Akihiko Odaki wrote:
> > On 2023/12/19 16:53, Huang Rui wrote:
> > > Sync up kernel headers to update venus macro till they are merged into
> > > mainline.
> >
> > Thanks for sorting things out with the kernel and spec.
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@xxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >
> > > Changes in v6:
> > > - Venus capset is applied in kernel, so update it in qemu for future use.
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b79dcf75-c9e8-490e-644f-3b97d95f7397@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> > > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-misc/commit/?id=216d86b9a430f3280e5b631c51e6fd1a7774cfa0
> > Please include the link to the upstream commit in the commit message.
>
> So far, it's in drm maintainers' branch not in kernel mainline yet. Do I
> need to wait it to be merged into kernel mainline?

For an RFC patchset, no. For patches to be merged into QEMU
the headers change must be in the kernel mainline, and the
QEMU commit that updates our copy of the headers must be a
full-sync done with scripts/update-linux-headers.sh, not a
manual edit.

thanks
-- PMM