From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36255) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzlI4-0004cc-22 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:13:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzlHz-0002nq-U1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:13:55 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:55344 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SzlHz-0002nm-Ji for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 10 Aug 2012 05:13:51 -0400 Message-ID: <5024D0C7.6080603@suse.de> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:13:43 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20120806182153.GA4606@windriver.com> <50241702.9010301@windriver.com> <5024CAEB.4070701@suse.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] MIPS: Correct FCR0 initialization List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: phils@windriver.com, Phil.Staub@windriver.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Blue Swirl , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Meador Inge Am 10.08.2012 11:00, schrieb Peter Maydell: > On 10 August 2012 09:48, Andreas F=C3=A4rber wrote: >> Actually there were better patches for the same bug by Meador, includi= ng >> git-style rather than SVN patches and adding a helper to initialize it >> consistently at all call sites. >> >> There's also DSP, Octeon, mips64 and signal handling patches around th= at >> someone needs to volunteer to update, test, clean up and queue. >> That a patch is on the list doesn't imply that it "just" needs to be >> applied though. So please be careful which patches you ping. >=20 > Yes, hence my suggestion to look for patches which got reviewed. >=20 > (Although speaking as somebody who has in the past submitted patches > which got neither reviewed nor rejected, I have some sympathy for the > idea that if nobody among us cares enough to look at a patch at all the > default should be to apply it.) >>From my memory Maciej himself retracted his patches in reaction to a reply from his colleague Meador. That might not show up when looking at just one unthreaded reply-less patch, so in general ack but needs to look at context, too. Doing follow-ups based on this one or, in worst case, reverting is certainly possible but the decision-making would best be done by someone who actually uses mips - not that there's no users, just no volunteer for a staging tree yet. /-F --=20 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=C3=BCrnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend=C3=B6rffer; HRB 16746 AG N=C3=BC= rnberg