On Fri, Oct 09, 2026 at 10:55:49AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Oct 2026 at 17:44, Bruce Richardson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The idxd DMA driver was marked as experimental in MAINTAINERS file.
> > Remove this designation as it's been stable for a long time now.
> >
> > Fixes: e33ad06eaeeb ("dma/idxd: add skeleton for VFIO based DSA device")
> > Cc: [email protected]
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >
> > Putting the fixline as the original start of the driver implementation,
> > since there is no good commit point to use to identify the stabilization
> > of the driver. Since this change should be good to backport to all
> > currently supported LTS releases, the orignal addition of the driver
> > works fine as a commit being fixed.
>
> No opinion on the backporting aspect.
> At least the driver looks stable for a while, so the patch lgtm.
>
Given that the driver has been around since 2021 and the oldest supported
LTS is 23.11, I felt it worthwhile to backport. However, if LTS
maintainers want to avoid this patch, I'm not too concerned :-)
