Re: [PATCH 1/7] paravirtualization: header and stubs for paravirtualizing critical operations

Rusty Russell
2006-11-05T06:21:28Z

On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 06:46 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Andi, the patches work against Andrew's tree, and he's merged them in
> > rc4-mm2. There are a few warnings to clean up, but it seems basically
> > sound.
> >
> > At this point I our think time is better spent on beating those patches
> > up, rather than going back and figuring out why they don't work in your
> > tree.
>
> My tree is basically mainline as base. Sure if you don't care about mainline
> merges we can ignore it there and keep it forever in -mm* until Andrew
> gets tired of it?
>
> That's a possible strategy, but only if you want to keep it as a mm-only
> toy forever.

Andi, it's been simpler for us to get the code into Andrew's tree, in
nice bit-size pieces. We've had trouble every time we've tried to get
stuff into your tree. In addition, Andrew's tree gives the code
exposure and testing.

If Andrew says we have to get those patches into mainline through you,
then I'll spend all that time re-spinning the patches for you from the
-mm tree until they go in. It doesn't seem like a good use of anyone's
time though.

Rusty.