Re: [GIT PULL] KVM changes for 3.17-rc4

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Fri Sep 05 2014 - 17:09:31 EST


Il 05/09/2014 22:58, Thomas Gleixner ha scritto:
> Nothing new there. Forgot to push out, or perhaps to use "-f" to
> overwrite the previous tag of the same name?

It's there now. Probably a --dry-run too much (I have
push=+refs/tags/for-linus:refs/tags/for-linus in the remote configuration).

> And even if there would be something, please do not pull the top most
> commit b11ba8c62be3eb (KVM: x86: fix kvmclock breakage from timers
> branch merge).
>
> That one is blantanly wrong and just hacks badly around a brown
> paperbag bug in the core timekeeping code, which I introduced in the
> last overhaul.

It's not wrong, it's just different. The commit message says clearly
that besides acting as a workaround, I find the patched code easier to
understand, and I clearly stated the same in the tag message.

Paolo
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