Re: [Xen-devel] XEN 4.1.3 blktap2 patches.

[Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@xxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 08:54:28AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-08-28 at 13:25 +0100, Dr. Greg Wettstein wrote:
> > Good morning, hope the day is going well for everyone.
> > 
> > The patches to fix the blktap2 issues which result in orphaned
> > tapdisk2 processes and the transitory deadlock on guest shutdown
> > didn't make it into the 4.1.3 release.  Updated patches to address
> > these problems are available at the following location:
> > 
> >     ftp://ftp.enjellic.com/pub/xen/xen-4.1.3.blktap1.patch
> >     ftp://ftp.enjellic.com/pub/xen/xen-4.1.3.blktap2.patch
> > 
> > The patches are designed to be applied in order and have been verified
> > to work against the 4.1.3 release.
> 
> Please can you post these patches as emails with a changelog and a
> signed-off-by. You should also CC Ian Jackson since he is the one who
> does the tools backports.
>

Hello again,

Dr. Greg: Can you please re-post the patches as emails with Signed-off-by lines 
included,
as suggested below in Ian's reply.. ? 

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches

Thanks!

-- Pasi
 
> The changelog should be clear about the backport status. IIRC one of
> these is a backport from unstable (so the changelog should say of which
> commit and preserve the original S-o-b) and the other is a
> reimplementation since too much has changed in unstable so there is no
> plausible backport (and the changelog should mention this).
> 
> Ideally these mails would be threaded with subjects "[PATCH 1/2] ..."
> and "[PATCH 2/2] ..." so that it is obvious that there is a sequence to
> them. A tool such as hg email will do this for you.
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Patches has some hints on how to
> use it.
> 
> If nothing has changed since the previous posting it may be sufficient
> to reply to that previous postings with a "ping" message and CC Ian
> there.
> 
> Ian.
> 

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