Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv9 0/10] slirp: Adding IPv6 support to Qemu -net user mode

[Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>]

On 03/07/2016 12:59 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Jan Kiszka, on Fri 04 Mar 2016 16:50:32 +0100, wrote:
>> On 2016-03-04 09:41, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>> On 22.02.2016 20:28, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> This is another respin of IPv6 in Qemu -net user mode.
>>>>
>>>> These patches add ICMPv6, NDP, make UDP and TCP compatible with IPv6, and add
>>>> TFTP over IPv6.
>>> *ping*
>>>
>>>  Jan, Jason,
>>>
>>> could you please have a look at this series? Would be cool to include it
>>> for 2.6 so that we'd finally have IPv6 support in Slirp, too.
>>> As far as I could see, the patches look fine now - there was just one
>>> rather cosmetic issue left in patch 9/10, but it should also be ok in
>>> the current shape already, I think, so IMHO no need for a respin.
>> As indicated before, we need someone else than me to manage the slirp
>> system. I'm out of bandwidth for this task, sorry.
> Ok, Jason?
>
> I'm really surprised that a patch that has been reviewed two times (by
> me then by Thomas) seems so difficult to get it.  I understand that
> it's far from trivial, but I have concerns with how qemu can manage
> contributions.
>
> Samuel

Sorry. I wasn't aware of needing a new maintainer for slirp before. Will
look at this series soon and take slirp until we have a new maintainer.

Btw, do you want to be the maintainer of slirp? (Or maybe Tohmas want to
do this?)

Thanks