From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47546) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHQ43-0001Sn-25 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:17:05 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHQ3w-0001Ye-Ss for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:16:59 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f48.google.com ([209.85.220.48]:36953) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VHQ3w-0001YQ-N0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:16:52 -0400 Received: by mail-pa0-f48.google.com with SMTP id kp13so1297445pab.7 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2013 20:16:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5227F79B.8090804@ozlabs.ru> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 13:16:43 +1000 From: Alexey Kardashevskiy MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1378196857-27541-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> <5225AC9A.2090601@ozlabs.ru> <5225BD32.8030001@siemens.com> <52260025.3050704@ozlabs.ru> <522601AB.1050901@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <522601AB.1050901@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-headers: update to 3.11 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Maydell , kvm-devel , Gleb Natapov , QEMU Trivial , Jan Kiszka , Michael Tokarev , QEMU Developers On 09/04/2013 01:35 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 03/09/2013 17:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto: >> On 09/03/2013 08:42 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> On 2013-09-03 11:32, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>>> On 09/03/2013 07:29 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: >>>>> On 3 September 2013 09:27, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy >>>>>> --- >>>>>> >>>>>> I need this update as VFIO on PPC64/pseries got in upstream kernel >>>>>> and this is required by VFIO-SPAPR bits in QEMU. Others may find this >>>>>> update useful too :) >>>>>> --- >>>>>> linux-headers/asm-arm64/kvm.h | 168 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>>>>> linux-headers/asm-arm64/kvm_para.h | 1 + >>>>>> linux-headers/asm-mips/kvm.h | 81 +++++++++-------- >>>>>> linux-headers/linux/kvm.h | 3 + >>>>>> linux-headers/linux/vfio.h | 42 ++++++++- >>>>>> linux-headers/linux/virtio_config.h | 3 + >>>>>> 6 files changed, 254 insertions(+), 44 deletions(-) >>>>>> create mode 100644 linux-headers/asm-arm64/kvm.h >>>>>> create mode 100644 linux-headers/asm-arm64/kvm_para.h >>>>> >>>>> I think this should go in via the KVM tree, not trivial. >>>> >>>> I do not mind, it just went through the trivial tree last time, that's it. >>> >>> This shouldn't be routed through trivial in general as things broke too >>> often in this area. >> >> Sorry for my ignorance, but this is The Kernel, it is already there, broken >> or not, even if it is broken, qemu cannot stay isolated, no? >> This is a mechanical change, no more. > > It's a matter of keeping things bisectable. If we can detect a > breakage, we can first work around it, and then apply the header update. > And if we don't detect it, maintainers usually send pull requests when > they have time to work on breakage caused by their patches. I can see the discussion but I do not see if anyone is going to pull this through any tree. Please, somebody, pull. Thanks. -- Alexey