Xen devel - Feb 2012 - Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] build: replace librt check function

On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 13:34 +0000, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > 2012/2/22 Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>:
> > > On 02/20/2012 06:11 AM, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Replace clock_gettime with timer_gettime, since at least
under
> > >> uclibc 0.9.33 the clock_getttime function can be used without
linking
> > >> against librt (although the manual page states the opposite).
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Roger Pau Monne<roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
> > >
> > >
> > > I don''t think this is against qemu.git.  Please do not
send patches to
> > > qemu-devel that are not against qemu.git without clearly
indicating this.
> > 
> > Sorry, this is against qemu-xen-upstream, should I add a tag to my
> > patches and resend them to qemu-devel?
> 
> qemu-xen-upstream is based upon the upstream qemu stable branch, not the
> development branch.
> 
> However patches for qemu-xen-upstream should have already been applied
> upstream. This means that patches should be against the mainline (e.g.
> development branch) version of qemu and sent to qemu-devel. Once
> committed there they will be backported as required to the stable branch
> maintained by Xen.org as qemu-xen-upstream.
> 
> (Stefano, is that correct? Is there somewhere we can (or do!) document
> this? Perhaps http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/QEMUUpstream linked to from
> Submitting_Xen_Patches? The backport policy should also be covered, e.g.
> http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=132872001218724 )
Yes, it is correct.

I added few lines to
http://wiki.xen.org/wiki?title=Submitting_Xen_Patches to explain this
concept. I have also linked http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
that is the reference on how to submit patches to qemu-devel.
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