Re: [PATCH 0/9] xen: build fixes with gcc5 and binutils 2.25.0

[Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 05:48:37PM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez
> <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> wrote:
> > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
> >
> > Here's a slew of build fixes as well as build warning fixes
> > required when using the latest build tools, at least gcc 5 and
> > binutils 2.25.0.
> 
> One good reason for some folks to get discouraged to work with Xen:

s/Xen/Any Open Source project/

Take a look in Documentation/SubmittingPatches, the " Don't get discouraged
- or impatient" section. It mentions 'pinging'.

> 
> Patches for fixes on builds last ages to get merged
> 
> In this case Mark Pryor <pryorm09@gmail.com> reported an issue and
> offered a fix on October 8, 2015 [0]. That did not go in as Jan noted
> it was probably not the right fix. Last year in November I provided
> what I think is a proper replacement set which I think addressed Jan's
> concerns.
> 
> ***Four*** months later and Xen still does not compile with the latest
> and greatest. I have to go digging out in my git basement somewhere
> some fixes I last used to build Xen to try to test some new
> features...

Odd it does compile for me - albeit I've had issues with the VNC
part which also needs another patch. But I hadn't had the chance to
see whether the patch would break builds on much older version of
distros.
> 
> What's up folks? How can this process be made smoother, did I do
> something wrong, what can I do to help better? What can you do to help
> ensure these types of things don't fall through the cracks.

ping? The same thing you would do on LKML.

> 
> [0] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel/264183
> 
>   Luis