Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-headers: update to 3.11

[Alex Williamson]

On Wed, 2013-09-04 at 01:47 +1000, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote:
> On 09/04/2013 01:34 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 3 September 2013 16:28, Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On 09/03/2013 08:42 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>> This shouldn't be routed through trivial in general as things broke too
> >>> often in this area.
> >>
> >>
> >> Sorry for my ignorance, but this is The Kernel, it is already there, broken
> >> or not, even if it is broken, qemu cannot stay isolated, no?
> >> This is a mechanical change, no more.
> > 
> > The classic way for things to break is that a header
> > update accidentally reverts something (because a
> > previous update was from kvm-next and this one is
> > from mainline, for example). Accidental updates against
> > a kernel which is neither kvm-next nor mainline are
> > the other common "broken" version of a header update
> > patch.
> 
> I can understand that but this update is a mainline kernel update and it is
> not an accidental one but very specific :-/

I was under the impression that we were only ever updating linux-headers
from mainline, never from kvm-next.  Therefore any mainline tag should
be a reasonable re-base target.  Thanks,

Alex