On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On 11/10/10 01:59, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:12:15AM +0000, M A Young wrote:
>> However for xen dom0 support to be a Fedora 15 feature we would really
>> need to have the appropriate drivers in the kernel when Fedora 15 ships,
>> so my main question is how likely is it that backported xen drivers would
>> be accepted into the Fedora kernel?
>
> Not particularly likely, I'm really sick of carrying backports of crap
> for aeons on a "promise" that things will get upstream.
Well, unlike 20 kernel releases back the xen guys are actually getting
their stuff upstream now. Chances are pretty good that the drivers make
it into the 2.6.38 merge window.
Good, sounds like 2.6.38 will be a suitable base for this work for
those that want it.
> If things are
> already /merged/ in 2.6.37-git by then, then maybe, but see below.
Could being in linux-next convince you too?
In my opinion, no. Things have been in linux-next but not merged
during the actual merge window. I personally don't believe there is
any substitution for "it's merged and in a released kernel".
josh