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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 12/07/2009 08:59 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> My problem is with stable-0.12.  Consider upstream fixed.
>>
>> 1) Bug reported against qemu-0.12.0.
>> 2) Developer writes patch against master, submits, all is well except 
>> for the CODING_STYLE argument it triggers.
>> 3) Developer writes patch against stable-0.12, can't test because 
>> testing crashes in some place where production doesn't crash.
>
> Stable-0.12 always carries a VERSION of 0.12.x where x < 50.  This 
> means that the stable-0.12 branch will always behave like a production 
> release.
>
> You don't get -Werror on stable-0.XX and you won't get zero malloc()s 
> assert.
>

That's good enough for me.  Allow 0 for 0.12 and new allocation 
functions for mainline, then?

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.