Re: [Qemu-devel] How long does it normally take patches to make their way into git?

[Stefano Stabellini]

On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 3:59 PM, John Haxby <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > How long does it normally take patches to make their way into git?  I
> > only ask because
> >
> >  [PATCH 1/2][REPOST] Introduce a new 'connected' xendev op called when
> > Connected.
> >  [PATCH 2/2][REPOST] Move the xenfb pointer handler to the connected method
> >
> > were (reposted) just under a month ago (11-Mar-2011) and I have a vested
> > interest in them :-)
> >
> > I'm quite happy to wait but I want to make sure that they're acceptable
> > and, if so, that they will eventually appear.
> 
> This has been discussed recently and there are efforts underway to
> improve it, basically we need more active subsystem maintainers to
> make the development process scale.
> 
> How about Stefano or Anthony Perard collect Xen patches that look good
> and have at least one Ack/Reviewed-by and send pull requests to
> qemu-devel and "Anthony Liguori" <address@hidden>?

I am up for it and I think is a good idea, especially after Anthony's
patch series is applied, because we'll drop the current qemu-xen tree
and start using upstream qemu with xen-unstable.