Am 11.04.2010 10:51, schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > 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?
These patches should all be in master already and seem to work reliably there. Cherry-picking them as a whole into stable is probably safer than cooking up a different fix which might have its own problems. Kevin
