Re: [Xen-devel] Radical proposal: ship not-fully-tidied shim as 4.10.1

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/09/2018 10:53 AM, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andrew Cooper writes ("Re: Radical proposal: ship not-fully-tidied shim as 
> 4.10.1"):
>> What I mean by this is
>> that, if we agree to go along this route, patches should be committed to
>> staging then immediately cherrypicked to staging-4.10, rather than
>> committed to staging-4.10 directly. This ensures that we don't
>> accidentally miss functionality in the mainline.
> 
> I don't think we are in any danger of "accidentally missing
> functionality in the mainline".  If that is a concern, we could close
> staging..  We could also attempt to git merge staging-4.10 into
> staging or simply git rebase everything after we start on this
> approach.
> 
> And as my other mail suggests, I don't think we should allow this work
> to be blocked by outstanding reviewed.  IMO we should ship what we
> have ASAP.

Well "what we have" boot under HVM?

 -George

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