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

[Jes Sorensen]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> 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.

Took me a bit of time to figure it out, ended up putting it on top of my
git tree that I pull from Linus which wasn't working particularly well
:(

The problem I have is that Linus tree breaks ia64 semi-regularly, and
only having a static tree to work from makes it a lot harder to bisect
my way to the offender. Had it happen twice over the last two weeks :(
Even when figuring out the breakage it means I have to juggle patches
from multiple lines of trees. This is why my personal preference would
be a quilt repo that sits on top of Linus' tree.

> 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.

You're the chief, so you get to set the rules. Of course you will always
have a dissident public :-)

> 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.

Hmmm, can you explain that in English please? :-) I'm on quilt 0.46,
which is whats in Fedora 7.

> BTW, have updated to rc3.

Thanks, I'll pull that down.

Cheers,
Jes