Re: XEN 4.1.3 blktap2 patches.

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 13:25 +0100, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote:
> Good morning, hope the day is going well for everyone.
> 
> The patches to fix the blktap2 issues which result in orphaned
> tapdisk2 processes and the transitory deadlock on guest shutdown
> didn't make it into the 4.1.3 release.  Updated patches to address
> these problems are available at the following location:
> 
> 	ftp://ftp.enjellic.com/pub/xen/xen-4.1.3.blktap1.patch
> 	ftp://ftp.enjellic.com/pub/xen/xen-4.1.3.blktap2.patch
> 
> The patches are designed to be applied in order and have been verified
> to work against the 4.1.3 release.

Please can you post these patches as emails with a changelog and a
signed-off-by. You should also CC Ian Jackson since he is the one who
does the tools backports.

The changelog should be clear about the backport status. IIRC one of
these is a backport from unstable (so the changelog should say of which
commit and preserve the original S-o-b) and the other is a
reimplementation since too much has changed in unstable so there is no
plausible backport (and the changelog should mention this).

Ideally these mails would be threaded with subjects "[PATCH 1/2] ..."
and "[PATCH 2/2] ..." so that it is obvious that there is a sequence to
them. A tool such as hg email will do this for you.
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches has some hints on how to
use it.

If nothing has changed since the previous posting it may be sufficient
to reply to that previous postings with a "ping" message and CC Ian
there.

Ian.