From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: The errors appear when compiling kvm-guest-drivers on kernel-2.6.29 Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:56:42 +0300 Message-ID: <49D461AA.1020700@redhat.com> References: <200904020025.29931.iggy@theiggy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Zhiyong Wu , kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Brian Jackson Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:52291 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752215AbZDBG4X (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Apr 2009 02:56:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200904020025.29931.iggy@theiggy.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.