Re: [Xen-devel] Submitting a patch for 4.0.1?

[Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx>]

On 03/04/2012 15:53, "Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Steve Johnston writes ("[Xen-devel] Submitting a patch for 4.0.1?"):
>> I have been using Xen 4.0.1 and have created/added a new scheduler that
>> I would like to release into the mainline.
>> 
>> Am I able to submit a patch for an older version of Xen or do I need to
>> port my changes to the current devel project?
> 
> New features of this kind will only be accepted into the mainline
> development series.
> 
> However, it would be worthwhile posting your patches as they are,
> against xen-4.0, so that we can see whether we are likely to accept
> them.  That might save you some wasted effort if it turns out that
> your new code is too hard to get into shape or unsuitable in some way.

Also, mainline is feature frozen for 4.2.0 right now, so you have a while
before we would accept a new scheduler anyhow.

 -- Keir

> Thanks,
> Ian.
> 
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