On Thu, 2010年04月29日 at 17:36 -0400, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> On 04/29/2010 02:28 PM, Daniel Stodden wrote:
> > So I'm probably building the wrong tree by default.
> >
> > I used to make linux-2.6-pvops when starting to work.
> > Which checks out xen/master.
> >
> > How does this relate?
> > 
>
> xen/master is an alias for xen/stable-2.6.31.x at the moment. I just
> submitted a patch to make this switchover explicit, and will move it to
> 2.6.32 soon.
Okay, so xen/master rather defaults to some stable tree.
If xen/frontend is the topic branch, people ideally prepare patches per
topic, and trunk is rather xen/next, then the thing I still don't follow
is than xen/frontend hasn't been merged since
* commit 8800a1de3df00fa994f72ad0d7c1eda9b5a0b514
| Author: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@xxxxxxxxxx>
| Date: Wed Jul 8 12:27:37 2009 +0200
Why would I want to build a kernel derived from last July's state? Or,
put differently: Is it okay to merge these topic branches before
anything else?
Daniel
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