Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/4] tools: Upstream blktap "2.5" as an external repo

[George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 12:46 PM, George Dunlap
<george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> For some time, the blktap2 in-tree has bitrotted.  Many years ago the
> XenServer team at Citrix forked the code into a separate repository;
> several attempts have been made to upstream those changes back into
> Xen, to no avail.
>
> The blktap code at the moment is the only source of performant vhd
> format integration.  It's additionally in use by projects like the
> COLO project.
>
> This patch series removes the in-tree blktap2 code and treats the
> XenServer blktap tree as an upstream.  I've gotten agreement from the
> XenServer team to act as an upstream -- to accept patches fixing bugs,
> to help track down errors, and to attempt to help fix build breakages
> introduced by development.

That is to say -- I think I remember getting such agreement -- please
do contradict me if I'm wrong. :-)

 -George

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