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: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:04:01 +1000 Message-ID: <52391821.1050004@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> <5227F79B.8090804@ozlabs.ru> <52281F93.4070805@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 , Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Paolo Bonzini Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f49.google.com ([209.85.220.49]:64833 "EHLO mail-pa0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751054Ab3IRDEK (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Sep 2013 23:04:10 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f49.google.com with SMTP id ld10so7666631pab.22 for ; Tue, 17 Sep 2013 20:04:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <52281F93.4070805@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 09/05/2013 04:07 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 05/09/2013 05:16, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto: >>>>>> 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. > > It will go in through the KVM tree, probably sometime next week. It is pretty impressive how such a trivial patch is still on its way to the upstream :) -- Alexey