Re: [GIT PULL (sort of)] KVM: x86: fixes and selftests fixes/cleanups

[Sean Christopherson]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 1:57 AM Sean Christopherson <seanjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I have two pull requests for 6.8, but I goofed (or maybe raced with you
> > pushing to kvm/master), and based everything on 6.8-rc2 instead of 6.8-rc1 as
> > you did.  And so of course the pull requests would bring in waaaaay more than
> > just the intended KVM changes.
> >
> > Can I bribe you to do a back merge of 6.8-rc2, so that my pull requests don't
> > make me look like a complete idiot?
> 
> Ignoring the fact that kvm/master is currently a subset of Linus's
> tree (so I can just fast forward to -rc4 before merging your stuff),
> that's absolutely not a problem and it happens all the time during the
> merge window. The way to handle that is to forge the diffstat in the
> pull request, replacing it with the diffstat of the test merge commit
> that I do anyway. It's a known issue with git-request-pull and pretty
> much all maintainers do it.

Heh, I did that locally, but sending out a forged diffstat felt dirty.  Though I
guess it all works out, so long as I make it clear that the base isn't kvm/master.

Thanks!