From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] qemu: IDE/ATAPI emulation reliability fixes Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:53:29 +0200 Message-ID: <475023E9.4070807@qumranet.com> References: <20071128180630.GA351@tapir> <474FB8AB.70601@qumranet.com> <20071130132511.GA28369@tapir> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org To: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20071130132511.GA28369@tapir> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Errors-To: kvm-devel-bounces-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote: > for qemu is probably not that much of a priority as they already have the > patches, most of them committed and the bugs are only in their development > tree which they don't release anyway, for kvm it is IMHO different since the > bugs are on released code with patch 2 (which ate 3 of my FreeBSD guests with > unrecoverable images which wouldn't even have a valid partition table) being > around since the qemu import of Oct 1 and therefore part of kvm-45 and all > releases up to the date. > > I understand though why you wouldn't like to divert from qemu, and I'll do my > best to try to get qemu to commit those patches so that any future conflicts > are resolved automatically, but as I said before, qemu just had different > priorities. > > You make some good points; I'll respin the merge and this time bisect the problems and revert the offending patches. I'll add these patches as well if qemu hasn't merged it by that time. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4