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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] NVMe: Initial commit to add an NVM Express
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To: Keith Busch <keith.busch@gmail.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Am 08.12.2012 20:20, schrieb Keith Busch:
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Andreas F=E4rber <afaerber@suse.de> wr=
ote:
>> Generally we encourage people to upstream their devices, given they ar=
e
>> sufficiently isolated and/or maintainable.
>=20
> Yes, that makes sense and have been doing that. We maintain an
> upstream repo, but needed to merge with a more recent qemu release for
> some critical updates and many api's changed from where we were.
> Merging was just a small matter of coding, but I thought it might be
> easier to keep up with the latest and greatest if it was part of it,
> if that's ok to do. [...]

With upstream I was referring to qemu.git, i.e. you are on the right
track with this patch in relation to your downstream repository. The
only bottleneck you will experience is reviewers and committers for a
device/technology that not everyone uses.

Andreas

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