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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Config.mk: update OVMF changeset
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 02:01:52 -0600
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>>> On 22.10.15 at 19:08, <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [PATCH] Config.mk: update OVMF changeset"):
>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> > This was discussed prior to Wei submitting this patch, but I can't remember
>> > the reference. Hopefully either Wei or Stefano does.
>> 
>> 1444832748.23192.213.camel@citrix.com 
> 
> Thanks for the reference.
> 
> I'm quite uncomfortable with this, really.
> 
> People who are using xen.git stable branches ought to get only changes
> that we (or perhaps, someone else whose judgement we have some reason
> to trust) have intentionally decided are suitable for deployment as a
> bugfix or security update in an existing installation.
> 
> Ie, changes in stable branches are supposed to be low risk.  That's
> not compatible with tracking an upstream development branch.

FWIW, I agree. Do we know of specific commits that we actually
need?

Jan