master branch of xen.git

master branch of xen.git

[Jan Beulich]

Jeremy,

what's the disposition of the master branch of that tree? It doesn't
seem to have seen any update during the last couple of months,
and it's still 2.6.31-based. Shouldn't this be either what "stable"
is currently (i.e. 2.6.32-based) or match up with Linus' tree (or
the latest released version thereof)?

Jan

Re: master branch of xen.git

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

  On 08/10/2010 11:38 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
> what's the disposition of the master branch of that tree? It doesn't
> seem to have seen any update during the last couple of months,
> and it's still 2.6.31-based. Shouldn't this be either what "stable"
> is currently (i.e. 2.6.32-based) or match up with Linus' tree (or
> the latest released version thereof)?

I keep forgetting to update it.  I think of it as a deprecated branch 
I'd like to get rid of, since the name is too vague.  In principle the 
name could be better used for something like "bleeding edge head", but I 
think changing its meaning like that would be way too much trouble, so 
just dropping it after migrating everything away from it is probably the 
best thing to do.

In the meantime, I'll make it the same as xen/stable-2.6.31.x, since 
that's more or less what it means.  (Likewise, xen/stable is tracking 
xen/stable-2.6.32.x at the moment).

I've also just started putting together a (pre-rc)2.6.36-based dom0 
branch which will become the development focus soon (leaving 2.6.32 
still supported but with backported changes, rather than the current 
flow of developing in .32 then forward-porting).

     J

Re: master branch of xen.git

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 11.08.10 at 08:45, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
> I've also just started putting together a (pre-rc)2.6.36-based dom0 
> branch which will become the development focus soon (leaving 2.6.32 
> still supported but with backported changes, rather than the current 
> flow of developing in .32 then forward-porting).

Wouldn't that be the ideal "master" when it becomes ready?

Jan

Re: Re: master branch of xen.git

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

  On 08/10/2010 11:58 PM, Jan Beulich wrote:
>>>> On 11.08.10 at 08:45, Jeremy Fitzhardinge<jeremy@goop.org>  wrote:
>> I've also just started putting together a (pre-rc)2.6.36-based dom0
>> branch which will become the development focus soon (leaving 2.6.32
>> still supported but with backported changes, rather than the current
>> flow of developing in .32 then forward-porting).
> Wouldn't that be the ideal "master" when it becomes ready?

Eventually, but it should be retired from its current role for a while.

     J