Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for 0.12.4

[Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>]

On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 09:25:50AM +0200, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:08:45PM +0200, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
>>> On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> A number of fixes have been accumulated in the stable-0.12 branch, and
>>>> I think it's time to release a new stable version. I would like to see
>>>> that happening for the end of next week (around the 18th of April).
>>>>
>>>> If you want to see some patches included, please send a mail to the
>>>> mailing list with the [STABLE] tag. I would clearly prefer patches that
>>>> are already in HEAD (if the patch can simply be cherry-picked, there is
>>>> no need to send a patch, just the commit number), though other patches
>>>> might be considered too.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Would be nice to backport the SCSI "crash&boot" patches. (was recently on
>>> the list, if you need more infos let me know, already commited).
>>>
>>
>> Can you please point me to the corresponding patches? Do they apply
>> directly to stable?
>
> No problem, last 6 patches from Gerd Hoffmann from:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/log/hw/lsi53c895a.c
>
> Details:
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=6ac08101f9de84be1fb7b45f87caed8ba8f3eb5a
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=aa4d32c4742e62e09786bd1067a5b98239867e93
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=b96a0da06bd782ef290445479a6d4d0de00c2c23
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=daa70311e0f7b37cd0ea3c4de0d163ccf1a36abe
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=af12ac9880eacdd79d49a11d5672df7170afb38f
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=042ec49dc52e54153942a089a46ae584152998fb
>
> At least for the 0.12.3 release they work well (merged & tested). Don't  
> know about release branch (maybe something has already been merged).
>

There is a lot of code refactoring in those patches, I am not sure we
really want that in stable. Would it be possible to extract only the
real fixes from those patches?

-- 
Aurelien Jarno	                        GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurelien@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net