From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alexey Kardashevskiy Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-headers: update to 3.11 Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:16:43 +1000 Message-ID: <5227F79B.8090804@ozlabs.ru> References: <1378196857-27541-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> <5225AC9A.2090601@ozlabs.ru> <5225BD32.8030001@siemens.com> <52260025.3050704@ozlabs.ru> <522601AB.1050901@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jan Kiszka , Peter Maydell , QEMU Developers , QEMU Trivial , Michael Tokarev , Gleb Natapov , kvm-devel To: Paolo Bonzini Return-path: Received: from mail-pb0-f44.google.com ([209.85.160.44]:48621 "EHLO mail-pb0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751772Ab3IEDQw (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Sep 2013 23:16:52 -0400 Received: by mail-pb0-f44.google.com with SMTP id xa7so1195983pbc.17 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 20:16:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <522601AB.1050901@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/04/2013 01:35 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 03/09/2013 17:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto: >> On 09/03/2013 08:42 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> On 2013-09-03 11:32, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>>> On 09/03/2013 07:29 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>>>> On 3 September 2013 09:27, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy >>>>>> --- >>>>>> >>>>>> I need this update as VFIO on PPC64/pseries got in upstream kernel >>>>>> and this is required by VFIO-SPAPR bits in QEMU. Others may find this >>>>>> update useful too :) >>>>>> --- >>>>>> linux-headers/asm-arm64/kvm.h | 168 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>>>> linux-headers/asm-arm64/kvm_para.h | 1 + >>>>>> linux-headers/asm-mips/kvm.h | 81 +++++++++-------- >>>>>> linux-headers/linux/kvm.h | 3 + >>>>>> linux-headers/linux/vfio.h | 42 ++++++++- >>>>>> linux-headers/linux/virtio_config.h | 3 + >>>>>> 6 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) >>>>>> create mode 100644 linux-headers/asm-arm64/kvm.h >>>>>> create mode 100644 linux-headers/asm-arm64/kvm_para.h >>>>> >>>>> I think this should go in via the KVM tree, not trivial. >>>> >>>> I do not mind, it just went through the trivial tree last time, that's it. >>> >>> This shouldn't be routed through trivial in general as things broke too >>> often in this area. >> >> Sorry for my ignorance, but this is The Kernel, it is already there, broken >> or not, even if it is broken, qemu cannot stay isolated, no? >> This is a mechanical change, no more. > > It's a matter of keeping things bisectable. If we can detect a > breakage, we can first work around it, and then apply the header update. > And if we don't detect it, maintainers usually send pull requests when > they have time to work on breakage caused by their patches. I can see the discussion but I do not see if anyone is going to pull this through any tree. Please, somebody, pull. Thanks. -- Alexey