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Re: [Xen-devel] [BUGFIX][PATCH 0/4] gdbsx: fix 3 bugs



On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 15:45:48 +0000
Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 12:52 -0500, Don Slutz wrote:
> > Release manager requests:
> >   patch 1 should be in 4.4.0
> >   patch 3 and 4 would be good to be in 4.4.0
> 
> (as acting RM in George's absence):
> 
> In all three cases what is missing is the "why" and the appropriate
> analysis from
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Roadmap/4.4#Exception_guidelines_for_after_the_code_freeze
>  
> i.e. what is the impact of the bug (i..e what are the advantages of
> the fix) and what are the risks of this changing causing further
> breakage? I'm not really in a position to evaluate the risk of a
> change in gdbsx, so someone needs to tell me.
> 
> I think given that gdbsx is a somewhat "peripheral" bit of code and
> that it is targeted at developers (who might be better able to
> tolerate any resulting issues and more able to apply subsequent
> fixups than regular users) we can accept a larger risk than we would
> with a change to the hypervisor itself etc (that's assuming that all
> of these changes cannot potentially impact non-debugger usecases
> which I expect is the case from the function names but I would like
> to see confirmed).
> 
> Apart from a release ack 4 of these would need an Ack from Mukesh
> IMHO. TBH if he is happy with them then I see no reason not to give a
> release ack as well.

Right Ian, at present I believe the only user of this file is gdbsx
so 4.4 would be very low risk. The issue is in a rare use case, so it 
could wait till 4.5 too if you'd rather not. Ok either way... :)..

thanks
mukesh


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