Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] check for utimensat() availability on configure

[Riku Voipio]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 01:56:40PM -0300, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > >> because mainline qemu is lacking a linux-user maintainer.
> > > I believe if you can guarantee (through proper testing) the stability of 
> > > maemo
> > > tree, and poke for review the specific parts that may affect the rest ot 
> > > the world,
> > > then it should be fine to just pull it.

> > At least, this would be better than what we have currently. Please note
> > also that "proper testing" is hard imho. It depends also on host/guest
> > systems used to test.

> it is hard for everybody, not just qemu user. Since you guys are the main
> user of it, if you are happy with the state of things, and it is isolated 
> enough from
> the rest of qemu not to break it very frequently, we should be fine.

Generally we use tests from ltp testsuite since they have nice tests for most
syscalls. However, the testing is not quite systematic, an particularry 
combinations
of host/target glibc appear to create a mess..

That said, the changes are highly contained under linux-user/, in the current 
tree
there is only one patch (GUEST_BASE support) that touches outside parts.

> > Having an "official" maintainer means having someone being able to give
> > his final word if people disagree on how to fix a bug.

> One of you should step up and do it.

If nobody objects, I can.