From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1VGt0M-0005N6-GH for mharc-qemu-trivial@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:58:58 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49895) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGt0G-0005G2-MJ for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:58:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGt0B-000423-HN for qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:58:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:31781) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VGt01-000413-7d; Tue, 03 Sep 2013 11:58:37 -0400 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r83FwXBc004418 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:58:33 -0400 Received: from [10.3.113.8] ([10.3.113.8]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r83FwWZq009763; Tue, 3 Sep 2013 11:58:33 -0400 Message-ID: <1378223912.3246.36.camel@ul30vt.home> From: Alex Williamson To: Alexey Kardashevskiy Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 09:58:32 -0600 In-Reply-To: <5226048E.2090004@ozlabs.ru> References: <1378196857-27541-1-git-send-email-aik@ozlabs.ru> <5225AC9A.2090601@ozlabs.ru> <5225BD32.8030001@siemens.com> <52260025.3050704@ozlabs.ru> <5226048E.2090004@ozlabs.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 10.5.11.11 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 Cc: Peter Maydell , kvm-devel , Gleb Natapov , QEMU Trivial , Jan Kiszka , Michael Tokarev , QEMU Developers , Paolo Bonzini Subject: Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-headers: update to 3.11 X-BeenThere: qemu-trivial@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2013 15:58:57 -0000 On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 01:47 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 09/04/2013 01:34 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 3 September 2013 16:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > >> On 09/03/2013 08:42 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >>> 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. > > > > The classic way for things to break is that a header > > update accidentally reverts something (because a > > previous update was from kvm-next and this one is > > from mainline, for example). Accidental updates against > > a kernel which is neither kvm-next nor mainline are > > the other common "broken" version of a header update > > patch. > > I can understand that but this update is a mainline kernel update and it is > not an accidental one but very specific :-/ I was under the impression that we were only ever updating linux-headers from mainline, never from kvm-next. Therefore any mainline tag should be a reasonable re-base target. Thanks, Alex