From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: Submitting a patch for 4.0.1? Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:56:05 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20347.3804.956615.607757@mariner.uk.xensource.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20347.3804.956615.607757@mariner.uk.xensource.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Jackson , Steve Johnston Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 03/04/2012 15:53, "Ian Jackson" 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. > > _______________________________________________ > Xen-devel mailing list > Xen-devel@lists.xen.org > http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel