Re: XEN 4.1.3 blktap2 patches.

["Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi>]

On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 04:18:34PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 08:54:28AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> Added Ian Jackson to CC list..
> 

Ping? 

Do we need a repost here or can these go into 4.1-testing.hg ? 
I see xen-4.1-testing.hg has received other backports now. 

-- Pasi

> 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> So is repost needed here? 
> 
> -- Pasi
> 
> 
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