From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:41:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F0DE5F2.7090001@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F0DE54F.1050700@siemens.com>
On 01/11/2012 01:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to see us avoiding this in the future. Headers update
>>> patches should mention the source and should not be merged until the ABI
>>> changes actually made it at least into kvm.git. Same applies, of course,
>>> to the functional changes related to that ABI. Otherwise we risk quite
>>> some mess on everyone's side.
>>
>> I agree.
>>
>>> Another thing: KVM_CAP_PPC_HIOR has been removed again from the kernel
>>> and also the header. Is there real free space now or will the cap
>>> reappear? If there should better be a placeholder, let's add it (to the
>>> kernel).
>>
>> I will reappear with ONE_REG semantics.
>>
>
> OK.
>
> Then please clean up now so that update-linux-headers.sh can be used
> again by "normal" developers. :)
Before we did submodules and had a responsive BIOS maintainer, we maintained
patches within qemu.git for our external dependencies. I think that's a good
strategy here too. It's a little painful, but not entirely awful.
At least it makes it possible for you to (hopefully) trivial rebase a patch if
something is still in limbo.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> Jan
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-11 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-11 19:16 [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers Jan Kiszka
2012-01-11 19:32 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-11 19:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-11 19:45 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-11 19:46 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-11 19:48 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-11 19:38 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-11 19:41 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2012-01-11 19:46 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-11 19:48 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-11 19:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-11 19:53 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-11 19:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-11 20:05 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-11 20:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-01-11 21:48 ` Alexander Graf
2012-01-12 8:34 ` Avi Kivity
2012-01-11 19:56 ` Jan Kiszka
2012-01-12 6:35 ` Gleb Natapov
2012-01-11 19:32 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Update linux headers against kvm.git Jan Kiszka
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