Re: [PATCH 0/4] CPU online/offline support in Xen

[Frank van der Linden <Frank.Vanderlinden@Sun.COM>]

Keir Fraser wrote:
> You can hardly expect to do work in private and then 'surface the submarine'
> when others post patches and expect them to do the work to merge with you.
> If Intel's patches look acceptable then they will be checked in and Sun will
> have to do the merge work to get any extra enhancements or features in their
> patchset to work on top. That is unless you can see strong reason why Sun's
> patches are technically better.
>   
Well, not quite in private, you may remember that I did a presentation 
at the Xen Summit.

Anyway, of course there is no point in not accepting or delaying a patch 
for something that is not available yet. I'll comment on the submitted 
patch, I think I see some issues that we found that aren't addressed in it.

- Frank