Request pull

[Ben Collins]

Chuck Short wrote:
> Tim,
> 
> This is targeted at the ubuntu-next tree assuming that 2.6.27 gets
> into intrepid.
> 
> chuck
> 
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com> wrote:
>> Chuck Short wrote:
>>> git://kernel.ubuntu.com/chucks/ubuntu-next-xen.git
>>>
>>> Chuck Short (8):
>>>       UBUNTU: xen: Add xen kernel modules to virtual flavour.
>>>       UBUNTU: xen: Add a vmlinuz target
>>>       UBUNTU: xen: Add empty xenctrl module

Empty? Looked like it has some code in it :) Can you give good reasoning 
why we need to include this for intrepid? Is there even something that 
uses it?

>>>       UBUNTU: xen: Add /proc/xen/capabilities
>>>       UBUNTU: xen: Add /proc/xen/privcmd
>>>       UBUNTU: xen: Add /proc/xen/xenbus
>>>       UBUNTU: xen: Add Xen's /sys/hypervisor interface
>>>       UBUNTU: Update config files.
>>>
>>> chuck (1):
>>>       UBUNTU: xen: fix typo
>>>
>>>  arch/x86/Makefile                  |    9 +
>>>  arch/x86/boot/.gitignore           |    1 +
>>>  arch/x86/boot/Makefile             |    9 +
>>>  arch/x86/xen/Kconfig               |   10 +-
>>>  debian/config/amd64/config         |    1 +
>>>  debian/config/i386/config          |    1 -
>>>  debian/config/i386/config.server   |    2 +
>>>  debian/sub-flavours/virtual.list   |    6 +
>>>  drivers/xen/Makefile               |    2 +
>>>  drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_comms.h  |    1 -
>>>  drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_probe.c  |    2 +
>>>  drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c     |    1 +
>>>  drivers/xen/xenctrl/Makefile       |    8 +
>>>  drivers/xen/xenctrl/capabilities.c |   68 ++++++
>>>  drivers/xen/xenctrl/main.c         |   91 ++++++++
>>>  drivers/xen/xenctrl/privcmd.c      |   81 ++++++++
>>>  drivers/xen/xenctrl/sysfs.c        |  349 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  drivers/xen/xenctrl/xenbus.c       |  398 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>  drivers/xen/xenctrl/xenctrl.h      |   57 +++++
>>>  include/asm-x86/xen/hypercall.h    |   56 +++++
>>>  include/xen/interface/version.h    |    6 +
>>>  include/xen/sys/privcmd.h          |   79 +++++++
>>>  include/xen/xenbus.h               |    2 +
>>>  23 files changed, 1237 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/xen/xenctrl/Makefile
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/xen/xenctrl/capabilities.c
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/xen/xenctrl/main.c
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/xen/xenctrl/privcmd.c
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/xen/xenctrl/sysfs.c
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/xen/xenctrl/xenbus.c
>>>  create mode 100644 drivers/xen/xenctrl/xenctrl.h
>>>  create mode 100644 include/xen/sys/privcmd.h
>>>
>> Chuck - I'm unsure of your intent. We would like to keep ubuntu-next as
>> close to pristine upstream as possible, debian directory
>> notwithstanding, so NACK on ubuntu-next.
>>
>> Or is this pull request targeted at Intrepid if we decide to adopt
>> 2.6.27? It sure doesn't look like it will apply to ubuntu-intrepid.git
>> as is.
>>
>> Pardon my ignorance if this should be obvious to me, but I have not been
>> keeping up with Xen development.
>>
>> rtg
>> --
>> Tim Gardner tim.gardner at ubuntu.com
>>
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