Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for 0.12.4

[Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>]

Am 11.04.2010 10:51, schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 09:25:50AM +0200, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:08:45PM +0200, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> A number of fixes have been accumulated in the stable-0.12 branch, and
>>>>> I think it's time to release a new stable version. I would like to see
>>>>> that happening for the end of next week (around the 18th of April).
>>>>>
>>>>> If you want to see some patches included, please send a mail to the
>>>>> mailing list with the [STABLE] tag. I would clearly prefer patches that
>>>>> are already in HEAD (if the patch can simply be cherry-picked, there is
>>>>> no need to send a patch, just the commit number), though other patches
>>>>> might be considered too.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Would be nice to backport the SCSI "crash&boot" patches. (was recently on
>>>> the list, if you need more infos let me know, already commited).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you please point me to the corresponding patches? Do they apply
>>> directly to stable?
>>
>> No problem, last 6 patches from Gerd Hoffmann from:
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/log/hw/lsi53c895a.c
>>
>> Details:
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=6ac08101f9de84be1fb7b45f87caed8ba8f3eb5a
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=aa4d32c4742e62e09786bd1067a5b98239867e93
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=b96a0da06bd782ef290445479a6d4d0de00c2c23
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=daa70311e0f7b37cd0ea3c4de0d163ccf1a36abe
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=af12ac9880eacdd79d49a11d5672df7170afb38f
>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=042ec49dc52e54153942a089a46ae584152998fb
>>
>> At least for the 0.12.3 release they work well (merged & tested). Don't  
>> know about release branch (maybe something has already been merged).
>>
> 
> There is a lot of code refactoring in those patches, I am not sure we
> really want that in stable. Would it be possible to extract only the
> real fixes from those patches?

These patches should all be in master already and seem to work reliably
there. Cherry-picking them as a whole into stable is probably safer than
cooking up a different fix which might have its own problems.

Kevin