From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6HT2-0000vZ-RG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 01:02:20 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6HSy-0000uq-Dp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 01:02:20 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49196 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M6HSy-0000un-73 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 01:02:16 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:40919) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M6HSx-0001gX-HP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 01:02:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4A123D58.1060100@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 08:02:16 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH STABLE 0/3] Backport kvm cpuid feature trimming to stable References: <1242698221-32463-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1242698221-32463-1-git-send-email-glommer@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Glauber Costa Cc: aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org Glauber Costa wrote: > subject self explanatory > Right, so you have free space here to provide the motivation for the backport. It's a large change and it isn't immediately obvious that it's stable branch material. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.