On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
