Re: [PATCH] make all (native) hypercalls consistently have "long" return type

[Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com>]

On 10/08/2012 08:54, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:

>>>> On 10.08.12 at 09:34, Keir Fraser <keir.xen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 08/08/2012 17:05, "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> for common and x86 ones at least, to address the problem of storing
>>> zero-extended values into the multicall result field otherwise.
>>> 
>>> Reported-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
>> 
>> Acked-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>
>> 
>> Of course this should go in for the next 4.2 RC.
> 
> And I had hoped to also get this into 4.x.y, but I see that you
> tagged the release already (and 4.1 also got pushed from
> staging). So with 4.0.x now presumably dead, I'd just like to
> ask to apply this to 4.1-testing then.

I'm happy to apply it to both, with a 4.x.next-rc1-pre tag. We may never
actually do another release from 4.0 branch however!

Since there's no rush, it can sit in xen-4.2-rc for a short while and then
get backported as part of a batch.

 -- Keir

> Jan
>