[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/17] blktap2 related bugfix patches
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:05 AM, Wen Congyang <wency@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/14/2014 11:48 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: >> Wen Congyang writes ("[PATCH 00/17] blktap2 related bugfix patches"): >>> These bugs are found when we implement COLO, or rebase >>> COLO to upstream xen. They are independent patches, so >>> post them in separate series. >> >> blktap2 is unmaintained AFAICT. >> >> In the last year there has been only one commit which shows evidence >> of someone caring even slightly about tools/blktap2/. The last >> substantial attention was in March 2013. >> >> (I'm disregarding commits which touch tools/blktap2/ to fix up compile >> problems with new compilers, sort out build system and file >> rearrangements, etc.) >> >> The file you are touching in your 01/17 was last edited (by anyone, at >> all) in January 2010. >> >> Under the circumstances, we should probably take all these changes >> without looking for anyone to ack them. >> >> Perhaps you would like to become the maintainers of blktap2 ? :-) > > Hmm, I don't have any knowledge about disk format, but blktap2 have > such codes(For example: block-vhd.c, block-qcow.c...). I think I can > maintain the rest codes. Congyang, were you aware that XenServer has a fork of blktap is actually still under active development and maintainership outside of the main Xen tree? git://github.com/xen-org/blktap.git Both CentOS and Fedora are actually using snapshots of the "blktap2" branch in that tree for their Xen RPMs. (I'm sure CentOS is, I believe Fedora is.) It's not unlikely that the bugs you're fixing here have already been fixed in the XenServer fork. I think we could consider taking these patches for the 4.5 release, as it's obviously too late to do anything more drastic at this point. But I think long-term we need to sort out a better solution. I'll write up an e-mail here to talk about a longer-term plan shortly... -George _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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