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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: KVM list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] KVM fix for 3.1-rc5
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:06:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E66EDBC.4040102@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFw+EJr9FhZZnj0re8hyH5+gFesDso2mX+PWck31ivnWYQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/07/2011 02:20 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@redhat.com>  wrote:
> >  Linus, please pull from
> >
> >    git://github.com/avikivity/kvm.git kvm-updates/3.1
> >
> >  to receive a fix for a build failure due to a missing instruction size
> >  suffix in inline assembly.
>
> Again, please give me a warm and fuzzy feeling that this is really
> Avi, and the right thing to do, rather than just a "please pull from
> this random tree".

Yup, it's the genuine thing here, and the s/mul/mulq/ is not an 
incredibly clever backdoor.

> It's not that I don't think you are you, but I want people to actually
> *think* about what they are doing and sending me. When you give me a
> kernel.org address, I know you have access to kernel.org, and that
> makes me believe you are you. When you give me a github address, that
> doesn't really mean anything.
>
>

Well, these days access to kernel.org proves a lot less than it used to, 
unfortunately.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-09-07  4:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-05  9:42 [GIT PULL] KVM fix for 3.1-rc5 Avi Kivity
2011-09-06 23:20 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-07  1:19   ` Josh Boyer
2011-09-07  1:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-07  4:06   ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2011-09-13  1:37     ` Arnaud Lacombe

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