Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v6 0/5] arm: compile tools

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 28 May 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 14:30 +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > This patch series was sent out two months ago and all the patches in the
> > series have been acked twice.
> > However it was never applied.
> 
> I think Ian J and I both thought the other was going to do it :-(
> 
> > What should I do about it?
> 
> Earlier on in the freeze I think we could have argued for an exception,
> but at this point I think that is tough hard call to make, especially
> since this touches non-arm code (even if mostly code motion or
> whatever).
> 
> I've been wondering generally what to do about ARM patches during the
> freeze, I've been thinking of maintaining a branch to queue stuff up in
> with the view to send a pull request when 4.3 opens. The other option is
> to maintain some sort of common dev tree but accept that it will need
> rebasing and reposting when 4.3 re-opens. (the primary difference is
> that in the former I get to resolve all the conflicts and in the latter
> we all get to do it, guess which I'm leaning toward ;-))

I am OK with a common dev tree, but on what changeset should be based
on?
I am not very motivated in rebasing these patches on a recent changeset
because since they involve a lot of code motion they need complete
manual re-doing every time...

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