Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] check for utimensat() availability on configure

[Glauber Costa]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:30:49PM +0200, Arnaud Patard wrote:
> Glauber Costa <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 07:07:42PM +0300, Riku Voipio wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:12:55AM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >> > > afaik, they can also be found in maemo's qemu git tree (and sent again
> >> > > later to the mailing list)
> >> 
> >> > Why is it not included, if it is a better fix?
> >> 
> >> because mainline qemu is lacking a linux-user maintainer.
> > I believe if you can guarantee (through proper testing) the stability of 
> > maemo
> > tree, and poke for review the specific parts that may affect the rest ot 
> > the world,
> > then it should be fine to just pull it.
> 
> At least, this would be better than what we have currently. Please note
> also that "proper testing" is hard imho. It depends also on host/guest
> systems used to test.
it is hard for everybody, not just qemu user. Since you guys are the main
user of it, if you are happy with the state of things, and it is isolated 
enough from
the rest of qemu not to break it very frequently, we should be fine.

> 
> >
> > That's what git allows for, we don't need an "official" maintainer in the 
> > commit
> > access sense. Just a trustworthy tree we can pull from.
> 
> Having an "official" maintainer means having someone being able to give
> his final word if people disagree on how to fix a bug.
One of you should step up and do it.