From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: qemu-trivial <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>,
Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc-dis: Remove redundant NULL check
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:06:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <505C1FF2.5050902@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505B4C7B.4000501@weilnetz.de>
Am 20.09.2012 19:03, schrieb Stefan Weil:
> Am 05.09.2012 19:45, schrieb Stefan Weil:
>> Am 05.09.2012 19:15, schrieb Stefan Weil:
>>>
>>> AFAIK, binutils moved to GPL 3. Therefore I don't expect that
>>> QEMU will update to upstream in the next years.
>>>
>>> We'll have to maintain the code which we have.
>>>
>>> Try "git log *-dis.c" or "gitk *-dis.c": there are already lots
>>> of more trivial changes which got applied to the disassembler files.
>>>
>>> => The patch should be applied.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Stefan
>>
>> Here is some additional information:
>>
>> binutils switched from GPL 2 to GPL 3 with version 2.18:
>>
>> Changes in 2.18:
>>
>> * The binutils sources are now released under version 3 of the GNU
>> General
>> Public License.
>>
>>
>> sparc-dis.c is already based on 2.17, so we won't get anything newer.
>> Even the latest version still uses the redundant NULL check, so I
>> can send my patch to the binutils maintainers, too.
So did you? And did they accept it?
Regards,
Andreas
> Ping? If nobody objects, I suggest to apply the patch via qemu-trivial.
>
> Regards
>
> Stefan W.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-21 8:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-03 20:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sparc-dis: Remove redundant NULL check Stefan Weil
2012-09-05 9:34 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-09-05 15:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Andreas Färber
2012-09-05 16:55 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-09-05 17:15 ` Stefan Weil
2012-09-05 17:45 ` Stefan Weil
2012-09-20 17:03 ` Stefan Weil
2012-09-21 8:06 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2012-09-05 18:13 ` Stefan Weil
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