From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Subject: Re: [patch 18/24] Xen-paravirt_ops: Some generic early printk & boot console fixups Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:48:14 -0800 Message-ID: <45DD2E9E.5030601@goop.org> References: <20070221205254.169835700@goop.org> <20070221205323.842917348@goop.org> <20070221191047.8d21acaa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20070221191047.8d21acaa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Andrew Morton Cc: Zachary Amsden , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Chris Wright , Andi Kleen List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org Andrew Morton wrote: > hm, this patch series seems to have gone out of its way to cause problems. > > This particular (pathetically changelogged) patch is already in my tree, > only in a later, much more comprehensive form. Similarly the HVC changes > were already in Rusty's stuff and were supposed to be merged by Paulus, but > haven't been yet. > > Can we just drop this one? Does the Xen work actually depend on it? Well, some form of the hvc patches is needed to get a console. I'll rationalize them with respect to Gerd and Rusty's latest patches, but I did want to make the series stand on its own rather than have external dependencies on unmerged patches. J