Pull request (kvm update)

[Soren Hansen]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 11:29:14AM -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> This syncs our kvm modules with the 60 release of kvm. All changes
>> are contained to kvm, except for a one-line patch to kernel/fork.c to
>> export mmdrop.
> Can you describe the prevailing opinion of the KVM dev community with
> regard to this patch set? 

Well, it's part of an official release of kvm. Is that good enough?

> What is a 60 release, 

60 is the version. I wonder why "the 1.2 release of foo" looks more
reasonable than "the 60 release of bar"..  I totally see it now that you
point it out, it's just curious :)

> and why isn't it upstream in the kernel?

It simply hasn't been pushed yet for 2.6.25 as there is probably going
to be even more work put into it.

> What sort of testing has been done?

As with everything that lands in kvm releases, it's been massively
tested and reviewed on the kvm-devel mailing list.

-- 
Soren Hansen
Ubuntu Server Team
http://www.ubuntu.com/
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