Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] xen: fix xen-mapcache build on non-Xen capable targets

[Alexander Graf]

On 23.07.2011, at 08:57, Blue Swirl wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:07 AM, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Great. Thanks. Instead of just pulling my xen-next tree which had an 
>> outstanding pull request for days now you apply Avi's patch which obviously 
>> conflicts with my current queue, so I have to rebase it again.
> 
> Your patch carried the tree with it, while Avi's was only a single
> patch fixing specifically the broken build. Given the release
> schedule, I didn't want to pull large patch sets anymore.

I see :). Anthony sounded quite contrary to that, specifically stating that 
pull requests that are issued until Friday get in. Oh well - deadline is past 
now and it's not like the other patches were important to have in 0.15 either.

> 
>> Not everyone is as privileged as you. Some of us have to wait for Anthony or 
>> someone else to pull their trees. We can't just commit :(.
> 
> I don't think rebasing could be avoided even if there were 2000
> developers with commit rights.
> 
>> Either way - leave the patch in. I'll rebase my tree.
> 
> Thank you for your work. If you think Avi's patch has some huge
> problems, you could also revert it as the first step.

Avi's patch is fine. In fact, it might even be better than the one I had in my 
tree. It was a mere thing of timing. Thanks a lot for caring about broken 
builds btw :).


Alex