Re: Xen dom0 Kernel Patches

[Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>]

On 06/04/09 05:43, Tim Post wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 22:31 +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
>
>> Yes, it doesn't have to be all pushed upstream for it to be used. It's just
>> a question of how big the out-of-upstream patchset is that Jeremy has to
>> manage. And actually there's maintenance work even with the upstreamed
>> patches, of course. But none of that directly matters for consumers of
>> Jeremy's tree.
>
> No, of course it doesn't. The problem is, Jeremy's tree is very much a
> moving target as he works to produce patches that upstream will accept.

Well, that might be fixable without too much effort.  Maybe jeremy could 
simply branch off a stable branch for 2.6.30 before rebasing to 
2.6.31-rc1?  Just to have something people can pull which is not based 
on some -rc bleeding edge kernel?  That branch wouldn't get updates, 
except maybe for cherry-picked bugfixes, maybe also 2.6.30.x stable 
patches if they apply cleanly.  Development would still happen in the 
xen-next + xen-master branches of course.

cheers,
   Gerd