From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Campbell Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 12/12] xen/iommu: smmu: Add Xen specific code to be able to use the driver Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:13:17 +0000 Message-ID: <1422447197.14124.11.camel@citrix.com> References: <1421418247-30068-1-git-send-email-julien.grall@linaro.org> <1421418247-30068-13-git-send-email-julien.grall@linaro.org> <54C7C565.5030308@linaro.org> <1422441084.16180.61.camel@citrix.com> <54C8CCAE.5090506@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta5.messagelabs.com ([195.245.231.135]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YGRUo-0007wC-DA for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 28 Jan 2015 12:13:22 +0000 In-Reply-To: <54C8CCAE.5090506@linaro.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Julien Grall Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, tim@xen.org, stefano.stabellini@citrix.com, Stefano Stabellini List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 11:49 +0000, Julien Grall wrote: > > Build time application of patches is a nightmare, we should definitely > > not do that. > > I though about it during the night. It would be the best approach to > keep in sync with Linux more quickly. > > It would also made clear what are our modifications and what was > upstreamed in Linux (assuming someone want to port/test our changes). Just to be completely clear: I will nack any patches which try and apply patches to the hypervisor at build time. It's not happening, sorry. Ian.