[Qemu-devel] Re: stable-0.12 versus master branching?

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:35:53AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> I am really confused wrt stable 0.12 branching policy.
>> For example I see this, in master:
>>
>> 	commit d587e0787153f0224a6140c5015609963ceaabfb
>> 	Author: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>> 	Date:   Mon Dec 14 11:36:53 2009 -0600
>>
>> 	    Revert "pci: interrupt disable bit support"
>>
>> 	    This reverts commit 0ea5709a32085f7d14901a09d12bd35f9b267607.
>>
>> 	    Per discussion with Michael Tsirkin, this is too risky for 0.12
>>
>> 	    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>>
>> (this was cherry-picked in stable-0.12 as well).
>> From the comment, this revert makes sense for stable-0.12
>> but not for master.  Is this an attempt to keep stable and master
>> as close as possible? I expected master development to proceed while
>> stable-0.12 would get just bugfixes. No?
>>   
>
> It was a mistake.  I've already got it recommitted in master.  Just need  
> to push.
>
> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori
>
>> Thanks,
>>

I see. So I think we should revert
f9bf77dd1f838b0061172fe41709b221956da2f5
on stable-0.12 as well: interrupt disable and interrupt
status appeared in the same spec revision,
so it might surprise guests to see one but not the other.

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MST