On 24 August 2012 06:44, Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@web.de> wrote: > On 2012-08-24 05:58, malc wrote: >> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Matthew Ogilvie wrote: >> >>> After applying this version 2 of this patch series, I can >>> successfully run "Micoport UNIX System V/386, v 2.1" (ca 1987) >>> under qemu. (although not if I try to enable KVM) >>> >>> Version 1 of this series was posted about 4 weeks ago. See >>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/list/?submitter=15654 >>> >>> The patches are all independent, except that the documentation part >>> of patch 5 (vga) adds onto patch 4 (retrace=) changes. >> >> [..snip..] >> >> Applied, thanks. > > Err, does this comply with the -rcX process? Patch 6 alone has been on > the list for less than a day. Only now I was able to comment on it, and > I would prefer to not have it merged that easily.
Adding a new command line option certainly looks like a new feature rather than a bug fix to me, and really shouldn't be going in at this point in the release cycle in my opinion. I would suggest that these commits should all be reverted. Thanks -- Peter Maydell