From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52447) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VM9kG-00046Y-HE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:52:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VM9kA-00048a-BJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:52:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 07:51:49 +0300 From: Gleb Natapov Message-ID: <20130918045149.GC5657@redhat.com> 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> <52391821.1050004@ozlabs.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <52391821.1050004@ozlabs.ru> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-headers: update to 3.11 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alexey Kardashevskiy Cc: Peter Maydell , kvm-devel , QEMU Trivial , Jan Kiszka , Michael Tokarev , QEMU Developers , Paolo Bonzini On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 01:04:01PM +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > 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 :) > It was applied long time ago https://git.kernel.org/cgit/virt/kvm/qemu-kvm.git/commit/?h=uq/master&id=8c409e659bc1373fab49a277bb5dc71babb73551 Sync with qemu.git does not happen after every patch though. If you are working on kvm parts using qemu-kvm.git uq/master branch will make sure that you are working on most up to date kvm bits. If you work depends on something that is not in qemu-kvm.git then let kvm maintainers know and we will send pull request to Anthony earlier. -- Gleb.