[libvirt] [PATCH 00/12] qemu: support chardev for all machvirt config

Christoffer Dall cdall at linaro.org
Thu Jul 20 15:29:13 UTC 2017


On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 13:17 +0200, Christoffer Dall wrote:
>> > Can't think of anything specific, but when I backported
>> > the fixes to libvirt 3.2.0 there were quite a few conflicts
>> > to take care of, so if Linaro is using a much older libvirt
>> > version I can imagine the backport would get even trickier.
>>
>> Is the 3.2.0 backport available somewhere public?
>
> I'm afraid that's not yet the case. I see you're using 3.4.0
> as your base version, so it wouldn't be of much help anyway.
>
> I took a quick peek at the git tree pointed to in the bug
> report and it looks like the backport was created not through
> cherry-picking of the relevant upstream commits, but by
> applying the patches straight off the mailing list.
>
> That is *not* the correct way to perform a backport, for a
> number or reasons:
>
>   * you lose metadata such as R-b tags;
>
>   * you don't have any information linking the downstream
>     commit to the respective upstream commit, which will
>     make it more difficult to figure out which commits can
>     be dropped during the next rebase;
>
>   * most importantly, any issue pointed out during review
>     that has a straightforward enough fix not to warrant
>     a respin will *still be present* in the backport.
>

Sure, in Riku's defense, I think the backport was done before the
patches were committed upstream.

But we'll give it another go.

Thanks,
-Christoffer




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