Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-12 Thread Avi Kivity
On 01/11/2012 11:48 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > > Strictly from a QEMU perspective, we can't depend on APIs that aren't > > committed upstream yet. We can't release any qemu that depends on something not upstream. > The question again is: When do we consider something upstream? This far fr

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-12 Thread Gleb Natapov
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 08:46:38PM +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 11.01.2012, at 20:41, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > On 01/11/2012 01:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >>> > I would like to see us avoiding this in the future. Headers update > patches should mention the source and should

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 11.01.2012, at 21:16, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/11/2012 02:05 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 11.01.2012, at 20:59, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >>> On 01/11/2012 01:53 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 11.01.2012, at 20:52, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> IIRC, we never had t

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/11/2012 02:05 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 11.01.2012, at 20:59, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/11/2012 01:53 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 11.01.2012, at 20:52, Anthony Liguori wrote: IIRC, we never had this problem with qemu-kvm - as the merges were coordinated with the kernel (subsys

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 11.01.2012, at 20:41, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/11/2012 01:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> I would like to see us avoiding this in the future. Headers update patches should mention the source and should not be merged until the ABI changes actually made it at least into kvm.gi

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-01-11 20:38, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/11/2012 01:32 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 11.01.2012, at 20:16, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm a bit unhappy about the current state of our supposed to be >>> automatically sync'ed linux-headers directory in qemu. It has been >>>

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 11.01.2012, at 20:59, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/11/2012 01:53 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 11.01.2012, at 20:52, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> IIRC, we never had this problem with qemu-kvm - as the merges were coordinated with the kernel (subsystem) tree. >>> >>> Are you su

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/11/2012 01:53 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 11.01.2012, at 20:52, Anthony Liguori wrote: IIRC, we never had this problem with qemu-kvm - as the merges were coordinated with the kernel (subsystem) tree. Are you suggesting that kvm header updates go through uq/master? That seems reasona

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-01-11 20:52, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/11/2012 01:48 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2012-01-11 20:46, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> >>> On 11.01.2012, at 20:41, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> On 01/11/2012 01:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> >>> I would like to see us avoiding this in the

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 11.01.2012, at 20:52, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/11/2012 01:48 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2012-01-11 20:46, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> >>> On 11.01.2012, at 20:41, Anthony Liguori wrote: >>> On 01/11/2012 01:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> >>> I would like to see us avoiding th

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/11/2012 01:48 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: On 2012-01-11 20:46, Alexander Graf wrote: On 11.01.2012, at 20:41, Anthony Liguori wrote: On 01/11/2012 01:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: I would like to see us avoiding this in the future. Headers update patches should mention the source and should not

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-01-11 20:46, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 11.01.2012, at 20:41, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> On 01/11/2012 01:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: > I would like to see us avoiding this in the future. Headers update > patches should mention the source and should not be merged until the AB

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 11.01.2012, at 20:46, Jan Kiszka wrote: > On 2012-01-11 20:38, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> On 01/11/2012 01:32 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> >>> On 11.01.2012, at 20:16, Jan Kiszka wrote: >>> Hi, I'm a bit unhappy about the current state of our supposed to be automatically

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 11.01.2012, at 20:38, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 01/11/2012 01:32 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: >> >> On 11.01.2012, at 20:16, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm a bit unhappy about the current state of our supposed to be >>> automatically sync'ed linux-headers directory in qemu. It has

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/11/2012 01:38 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote: I would like to see us avoiding this in the future. Headers update patches should mention the source and should not be merged until the ABI changes actually made it at least into kvm.git. Same applies, of course, to the functional changes related to tha

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Jan Kiszka
On 2012-01-11 20:32, Alexander Graf wrote: > > On 11.01.2012, at 20:16, Jan Kiszka wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm a bit unhappy about the current state of our supposed to be >> automatically sync'ed linux-headers directory in qemu. It has been >> updated several times against undefined kernel trees, m

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Anthony Liguori
On 01/11/2012 01:32 PM, Alexander Graf wrote: On 11.01.2012, at 20:16, Jan Kiszka wrote: Hi, I'm a bit unhappy about the current state of our supposed to be automatically sync'ed linux-headers directory in qemu. It has been updated several times against undefined kernel trees, means against n

Re: [Qemu-devel] State of KVM bits in linux-headers

2012-01-11 Thread Alexander Graf
On 11.01.2012, at 20:16, Jan Kiszka wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a bit unhappy about the current state of our supposed to be > automatically sync'ed linux-headers directory in qemu. It has been > updated several times against undefined kernel trees, means against > neither a released version nor kvm.git