From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: qemu-kvm.git stable requests Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:25:58 +0300 Message-ID: <4BB4BB06.8080506@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm list , Marcelo Tosatti , Kenni Lund To: Alexander Graf Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:18584 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754982Ab0DARBu (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Apr 2010 13:01:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 03/31/2010 11:26 AM, Alexander Graf wrote: > Howdy, > > Apparently there was just the very first case of someone requiring my patch to enable BAR regions< 4k. To enable people to use those devices with a released version, I'd suggest cherry-picking these commits into 0.12-stable: > > commit 8845b72377a42443b249360b9cd3d6f1e8cfb097 > Author: Alexander Graf > Date: Thu Dec 17 16:04:44 2009 +0100 > > commit be5a9efb3359cac07217d477b44f6bd0e17658f0 > Author: Michael S. Tsirkin > Date: Wed Dec 23 12:07:47 2009 +0200 > These look reasonable (but please include the subject line in the future). > While at it, I realized that the friendly help output if a device is currently in use by a driver is not available. So I'd also suggest taking those in to -stable: > > > commit 0cbd39044aa9f6c4462b7783376c894786f8de77 > Author: Alexander Graf > Date: Thu Dec 17 16:04:45 2009 +0100 > > commit 27a3fa20f302e64fe10d5c2f0f5c73d73e336166 > Author: Alexander Graf > Date: Thu Dec 17 16:04:46 2009 +0100 > > I don't think it's worth the risk of a regression. One one hand, unfriendly help output. On the other hand, things break, data corruption, end of the world. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function