Subject: [PATCH V2 2/3] Documentation: virtio: Add emergency write (emerg_wr) config register in virtio console.

From: [email-masked] (Christopher Covington)
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 13:36:59 -0400

Hi Pranavkumar,

On 05/13/2013 02:56 AM, Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar wrote:
> Hi Rusty,
> 
> On 13 May 2013 08:22, Rusty Russell <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <[email-masked]> writes:
>>> Signed-off-by: Pranavkumar Sawargaonkar <[email-masked]>
>>> Signed-off-by: Anup Patel <[email-masked]>
>>> ---
>>>  Documentation/virtual/virtio-spec.txt |    8 +++++++-
>>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> OK, I applied this to the lyx master, with three changes:
>> 1) Changed "filed" to "field".
>> 2) Added ", or even acknowledging the feature" after "without
>>    initializing virtio queues".
>> 3) Added an initial point to the Device Initialization section:
>>
>>    1. If the VIRTIO_CONSOLE_F_EMERG_WRITE feature is offered, the
>>    emerg_wr field of the configuration can be written at any time. Thus
>>    it should work for very early boot debugging output as well as
>>    catastophic OS failures (eg. virtio ring corruption).
> 
> Thanks for applying this patch.
> Have you also applied first patch ([PATCH V2 1/3] virtio: console: Add
> emergency writeonly register to config space)
> with this?  (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/6/169)

You seem to have omitted copying virtualization at lists.linux-foundation.org,
the mailing list documented in the MAINTAINERS file as appropriate for changes
relating to the virtio console driver.

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Christopher

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