On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:58:03AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 10:26:52AM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Probably won't read mail. Linus, I'll have pull requests early > >> next week; if there's anything needed I'm sure Michael Tsirkin can > >> handle it. > > > > Sure. > > Rusty, there's a small chance virtio 1.0 bits will be ready in time. > > I started working on them based on your virtio-pci-new-layout branch. > > > > If ready before the merge window, are you ok with me merging this > > support (without you having the opportunity to review first)? > > Sorry, absolutely not. I *really* want to review this in depth; if we > make a mistake, it's going to hurt us significantly.
Right but it's only a merge window - we can fix bugs and even disable the new driver afterwards, can't we? > And until we have the qemu bits ready, it's really hard to tell if we've > got this right. Sure, I meant if qemu bits are ready too, and if things work together. It wouldn't do to merge a driver that isn't ready. > So I'd rather delay and make sure we're solid. > > Thanks, > Rusty. Something else we can do, is refactoring that splits driver out to common and legacy bits, and changes APIs. No? -- MSt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
