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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Delaying -rc0?
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>, Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Kevin OConnor <kevin@koconnor.net>, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

On Mi, 2015-03-04 at 08:27 +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> 
> > On 4 March 2015 at 00:07, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com> wrote:
> >> In the mean time this series depends on Igor's ACPI dynamic series that took
> >> a lot of time to review and even Michael's PULL request with it is not yet
> >> in master.
> >
> > You can view this as an argument against enormous pull requests
> > with nearly a hundred patches in them -- they're much more likely
> > to hit multiple issues in submission with minor things that need
> > fixing, simply because of their size...
> 
> Yes.  The current PCI pull request is clearly too big for its own
> good.

... and it has non-pci stuff in there too.  Guess it would make sense to
split stuff into multiple queues (acpi, pc, acpi, virtio, ...).  Helps
to keep the size reasonable.  I think it works better overall, even if
it is annoying at times when there are patch dependencies between
branches.

cheers,
  Gerd