Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] merge some xen bits into qemu

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>]

Gerd Hoffmann, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 16:08:47 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Gerd Hoffmann, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 15:54:33 +0200, a écrit :
> >> IMHO the best way to address this issue is to rebase frequently.
> > 
> > Then why not pushing the changes to xen repositories in the first place?
> 
> Because I want have xen support in *upstream* qemu.

I know, but you are basically saying "ok, guys, you'll just manage the
breakage of the big merge, thanks", that's not very convenient, to say
the least.  For instance, where should fix patches be sent to?  Both
qemu-devel and xen-devel?  Just xen-devel and thus make Ian have to push
them to qemu-devel?

Pushing the cleaning changes to Xen first can be done and would entail
much easier to tackle breakage, and the merge back from qemu would then
be trivial, why not doing so?

> >> I'm trying to fiddle my bits into qemu-dm right now.  One problem is
> >> that I get build failures simply because of the fact that the qemu-dm
> >> base is old compared to upstream qemu.
> > 
> > Use Ian Jackson's tree!
> 
> Adapt my patches to an oldish qemu fork, so they must be adapted again
> for submitting upstream?  No, thank you.

AGAIN, THERE IS THE IAN JACKSON TREE.

Thanks for reading.  Ian has _already_ done that hard work.

Samuel