From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Brian Jackson <iggy@theiggy.com>
Cc: Zhiyong Wu <zwu.kernel@gmail.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The errors appear when compiling kvm-guest-drivers on kernel-2.6.29
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:56:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D461AA.1020700@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200904020025.29931.iggy@theiggy.com>
Brian Jackson wrote:
> I don't think the kvm-guest-drivers are still well maintained (they haven't
> been touched in 5 months). If you are using kernel 2.6.29, it already has
> virtio drivers and you don't need the kvm-guest-drivers tree at all.
>
That is correct. The effort to maintain a network driver portable to
more than 10 kernel versions is too great.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-02 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-02 4:10 The errors appear when compiling kvm-guest-drivers on kernel-2.6.29 Zhiyong Wu
2009-04-02 4:32 ` Zhiyong Wu
2009-04-02 5:25 ` Brian Jackson
2009-04-02 6:56 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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