From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49823) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqbCa-00028s-49 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:19:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqbCU-0007Zh-Vk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:19:44 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39986) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqbCU-0007ZZ-NT for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:19:38 -0500 Message-ID: <546AD6DE.6080605@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:19:26 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1416248898-6302-1-git-send-email-ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-headers: update to 3.18-rc5 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell , Ard Biesheuvel Cc: QEMU Developers , Christoffer Dall , Michael Hudson-Doyle On 17/11/2014 19:32, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 17 November 2014 18:28, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: >> This updates the Linux header to version 3.18-rc5, adding support for >> (among other things) read-only memslots on ARM and arm64. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel > > So, to be clear, the idea is that this should go into 2.2 because > it (effectively) fixes a bug where running from emulated flash > devices under KVM/ARM doesn't work? > > A KVM header update seems pretty safe to me; cc'ing Paolo > as KVM maintainer to ack/nak it. Sure, this is a good time (kernel-wise) to update headers. And if it fixes a bug, it's acceptable for hard freeze. Paolo