Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-ppc] [PULL 0/4] ppc patches for qemu-2.7 stable branch

[Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Quoting David Gibson (2016-10-24 20:41:29)
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 04:24:31PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
> > Quoting Peter Maydell (2016-10-17 13:45:21)
> > > On 17 October 2016 at 19:13, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > > We could do both though: use some ad-hoc way to tag for a particular
> > > > sub-maintainer tree/stable branch, as well as an explicit "not for
> > > > master" in the cover letter ensure it doesn't go into master. It's a bit
> > > > more redundant, but flexible in that people can use whatever tagging
> > > > format they want for a particular tree.
> > > 
> > > Yes, that would be my preference. Gmail's filtering is not
> > > very good, and it doesn't seem to be able to support
> > > multiple or complex matches on the subject line, but
> > > it can deal with "doesn't include foo in body".
> > > People who actively want to look for stuff not to go
> > > into master can filter it however they like.
> > 
> > Sounds good to me. For my part I think "for-2.7.1" etc. would be
> > prefereable. No need to resend this patchset though.
> > 
> > I suppose MAINTAINERS would be the best place to document something
> > like this?
> 
> So.. regardless of the outcome in general for future stable merges..
> 
> Has this batch been merged for 2.7 stable?  Or do I need to resend it
> in the new style?

No need to resend. I should have the initial staging tree for 2.7 posted
by Monday and will have this included.

> 
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