Xen devel - Apr 2012 - Submitting a patch for 4.0.1?

Hi all,

I have been using Xen 4.0.1 and have created/added a new scheduler that
I would like to release into the mainline.

Am I able to submit a patch for an older version of Xen or do I need to
port my changes to the current devel project?

Steve

Steve Johnston writes ("[Xen-devel] Submitting a patch for
4.0.1?"):
> I have been using Xen 4.0.1 and have created/added a new scheduler that
> I would like to release into the mainline.
> 
> Am I able to submit a patch for an older version of Xen or do I need to
> port my changes to the current devel project?
New features of this kind will only be accepted into the mainline
development series.

However, it would be worthwhile posting your patches as they are,
against xen-4.0, so that we can see whether we are likely to accept
them.  That might save you some wasted effort if it turns out that
your new code is too hard to get into shape or unsuitable in some way.

Thanks,
Ian.

On 03/04/2012 15:53, "Ian Jackson" <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
wrote:
> Steve Johnston writes ("[Xen-devel] Submitting a patch for
4.0.1?"):
>> I have been using Xen 4.0.1 and have created/added a new scheduler that
>> I would like to release into the mainline.
>> 
>> Am I able to submit a patch for an older version of Xen or do I need to
>> port my changes to the current devel project?
> 
> New features of this kind will only be accepted into the mainline
> development series.
> 
> However, it would be worthwhile posting your patches as they are,
> against xen-4.0, so that we can see whether we are likely to accept
> them.  That might save you some wasted effort if it turns out that
> your new code is too hard to get into shape or unsuitable in some way.
Also, mainline is feature frozen for 4.2.0 right now, so you have a while
before we would accept a new scheduler anyhow.

 -- Keir
> Thanks,
> Ian.
> 
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