From: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
Steve Johnston <steve.johnston@adventiumlabs.com>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: Submitting a patch for 4.0.1?
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:56:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CBA0DC25.3D52B%keir@xen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20347.3804.956615.607757@mariner.uk.xensource.com>
On 03/04/2012 15:53, "Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> Steve Johnston writes ("[Xen-devel] Submitting a patch for 4.0.1?"):
>> I have been using Xen 4.0.1 and have created/added a new scheduler that
>> I would like to release into the mainline.
>>
>> Am I able to submit a patch for an older version of Xen or do I need to
>> port my changes to the current devel project?
>
> New features of this kind will only be accepted into the mainline
> development series.
>
> However, it would be worthwhile posting your patches as they are,
> against xen-4.0, so that we can see whether we are likely to accept
> them. That might save you some wasted effort if it turns out that
> your new code is too hard to get into shape or unsuitable in some way.
Also, mainline is feature frozen for 4.2.0 right now, so you have a while
before we would accept a new scheduler anyhow.
-- Keir
> Thanks,
> Ian.
>
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2012-04-03 14:25 Submitting a patch for 4.0.1? Steve Johnston
2012-04-03 14:53 ` Ian Jackson
2012-04-03 15:56 ` Keir Fraser [this message]
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