Re: [RFC v3 7/8] vhost-vdpa: introduce vhost-vdpa backend

[Cindy Lu]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 10:44 PM Laurent Vivier <lvivier@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/06/2020 22:14, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 5/29/20 9:06 AM, Cindy Lu wrote:
> >> From: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
> >
> > The original author is Tiwei Bie...
> >
> >>
> >> Currently we have 2 types of vhost backends in QEMU: vhost kernel and
> >> vhost-user. The above patch provides a generic device for vDPA purpose,
> >> this vDPA device exposes to user space a non-vendor-specific
> >> configuration
> >> interface for setting up a vhost HW accelerator, this patch set
> >> introduces
> >> a third vhost backend called vhost-vdpa based on the vDPA interface.
> >>
> >> Vhost-vdpa usage:
> >>
> >>    qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu host -enable-kvm \
> >>      ......
> >>    -netdev type=vhost-vdpa,vhostdev=/dev/vhost-vdpa-id,id=vhost-vdpa0 \
> >>    -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=vhost-vdpa0,page-per-vq=on \
> >>
> >> Co-Authored-By: Lingshan zhu <lingshan.zhu@intel.com>
> >> Signed-off-by: Cindy Lu <lulu@redhat.com>
> >> ---
> >
> > ...but there is no S-o-b here.  Also, Co-Authored-By is an unusual tag;
> > it's just as easy to spell it Signed-off-by even for co-authors.
> >
>
> Normally the tag to use in this case is "Co-developed-by".
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html#when-to-use-acked-by-cc-and-co-developed-by
>
> "A Co-Developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another
> developer along with the original author. This is useful at times when
> multiple people work on a single patch. Note, this person also needs to
> have a Signed-off-by: line in the patch as well."
>
> Thanks,
> Laurent
>
Thanks Laurent,I will fix this