[Lguest] [PATCH 0/7] Modify lguest32 to make room for lguest64

Rusty Russell rusty at rustcorp.com.au
Tue Aug 14 13:11:36 EST 2007


On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:02 -0400, Jes Sorensen wrote:
> >>>>> "Jes" == Jes Sorensen <jes at sgi.com> writes:
> 
> Jes> Any chance you could post a set of seperate patches that are in
> Jes> the queue for Linus so one can quilt apply it or something like
> Jes> that?
> 
> Hi Rusty,
> 
> Taking this to the lguest list as it's really lguest specific. Any
> chance you could be convinced to track these against Linus' top of
> trunk rather than nasty static snapshots? I need to have the latest
> ia64 patches in for my work and sticking with an old broken Linus
> tarball tree is going to bite bigtime :(

The current version is in KERNEL_VERSION.  It's a quilt queue inside a
mecurial repo.

IMHO git isn't the right format for this kind of development.  It leads
to rampant uncontrolled development and noticeable lack of supervision.
There's simply no painless way of doing this: we're *going* to break
everyone while we shuffle things around.

So I prefer a queue of patches.  This means you have to comment out
patches as they get applied, but since lguest is fairly self-contained
that's usually the only form of churn.

Note that if your quilt doesn't support guards, you will have gotten all
my experimental patches, too.  I've commented them out of the series for
now until I can update them.

BTW, have updated to rc3.

Rusty.




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