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Re: AW: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Future of xenbits Linux trees

To: Carsten Schiers <carsten@xxxxxxxxxx>, kraxel <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: AW: Re: [Xen-devel] Re: Future of xenbits Linux trees
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:49:19 +0100
Cc: yamahata <yamahata@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, jeremy <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "chris.ace" <chris.ace@xxxxxxx>
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On 05/06/2009 18:58, "Carsten Schiers" <carsten@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What I'd like to add is that I would prefer a better tagging of the
> kernel 
> repo to identify subversion of the kernel that belong to a certain
> version 
> of Xen, whatever kernel that might be. Fixes and improvements are
> happening
> so quickly that on the pure user's side the combination can make a
> difference,
> no matter how much effort you put in to keep it independent.

As I've said so many times, the kernel version and Xen version are *not*
tied. We don't do kernel releases tied to Xen versions, at all.

 -- Keir



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