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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RESEND2] Qemu unmaintained?
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>, Bernhard Kauer <kauer@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/10/2009 04:56 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> The problem is patch volume.  We often see hundreds of patches a 
>> day.  If typing a mail for each patch takes 2 minutes, that's 
>> potentially hours spent just on sending these mails.
>>
>
> You exaggerate.  The average rate is 13 patches per calendar day.

On list or committed?  There are a lot more on list than 13..

> commit e09a5267adf0af25b55d2abaf06e288b2d9537ea
> Author: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
> Date:   Thu Sep 3 12:31:33 2009 -0500
>
>     qemu-kvm: fix segfault when running kvm without /dev/kvm, falling 
> back to non-accelerated mode
>
>     qemu-kvm: fix segfault when running kvm without /dev/kvm, falling 
> back
>     to non-accelerated mode
>
>     We're seeing segfaults on systems without access to /dev/kvm.  It
>     looks like the global kvm_allowed is being set just a little too late
>     in vl.c.  This patch moves the kvm initialization a bit higher in the
>     vl.c main, just after options processing, and solves the segfaults.
>     We're carrying this patch in Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha.  Please apply
>     upstream, or advise if and why this might not be the optimal 
> solution.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
>
>     Move the kvm_init() call a bit higher to fix a segfault when
>     /dev/kvm is not available.  The kvm_allowed global needs
>     to be set correctly a little earlier.
>
>     Signed-off-by: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>
> There are many examples like this in the tree which is a pity.  Others 
> include parts of an email conversation.  I'd like history to look 
> better than this.

This is goofy and is caused by improper patch submission.  But when 
people quote email threads in a commit message, I don't remove them.  It 
don't see it as a problem.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori