On Mon, 4 Mar 2024 at 06:00, Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com> wrote: > Yes I think you're looking at the right path, it's just that the relevant > patches haven't yet landed upstream but is planned. I normally use > "Based-on" tag for such patch that has a dependency outside master, like: > > Based-on: <20240229153017.2221-1-faro...@suse.de> > > I believe many others on the qemu list do the same. I think the rational > is this will be both recognized by human beings and also by patchew, > e.g. patchew will report a good apply status here: > > https://patchew.org/QEMU/20240301091524.39900-1-pet...@redhat.com/ > > And in the same patch if you fetch the tree patchew provided: > > git fetch https://github.com/patchew-project/qemu > tags/patchew/20240301091524.39900-1-pet...@redhat.com > > You can also directly fetch the whole tree with this patch applied > correctly on top of the dependency series. > > Personally I don't use patchew, but I kept that habit to declare patch > dependencies just in case it'll help others who use it (e.g., I think > patchew has other review tools like version comparisons, which I also don't > use myself).
* Interesting. Thank you. --- - Prasad
