From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] tools: remove more of ia64 support Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 10:08:28 +0000 Message-ID: <52A1A21C.6060105@eu.citrix.com> References: <1386277798-22038-1-git-send-email-olaf@aepfle.de> <1386323104.20047.150.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1386323104.20047.150.camel@kazak.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell , Olaf Hering Cc: xen-devel@lists.xen.org List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 12/06/2013 09:45 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 22:09 +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: >> Remove a few more occurrences of ia64 from the sources. > Thanks. As you'll have seen from George's development updates we are now > well into code freeze and close to an rc0 for 4.4. > > So every patch needs to come with some sort of justification for why it > should be accepted for 4.4 (or have an explicit note indicating that it > is 4.5 material). > > In this case although removing code seems harmless enough it does risk > causing build failures, or in the case of the python stuff, runtime > exceptions. I don't think the benefits outweigh the risks for 4.4. > George? > > We also have a policy these days of CCing the folks listed in > MAINTAINERS. You might find ./scripts/get_maintainers.pl useful. > > BTW, George while I have you attention -- do you have a standard link > which I can direct people to regarding the freeze exception > considerations (the "#1 an awesome releases stuff") and the methodology > which I've seen you deploy in various threads. Or if not a standard link > a particular instance which is especially illustrative? Hmm, not yet -- I'll put it on the "roadmap" page. -George