linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 5/8] KVM: X86: Add callback to let modules decide over some supported cpuid bits

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Message-ID: <4BD1A7BB.20206@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 2010 16:59:23 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Alexander Graf <agraf@...e.de>
CC:	Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@....com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] KVM: X86: Add callback to let modules decide over
 some supported cpuid bits

On 04/23/2010 04:52 PM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> On 22.04.2010, at 12:33, Joerg Roedel wrote:
>
>    
>> This patch adds the get_supported_cpuid callback to
>> kvm_x86_ops. It will be used in do_cpuid_ent to delegate the
>> decission about some supported cpuid bits to the
>> architecture modules.
>>
>> Cc: stable@...nel.org
>>      
> Please don't CC stable. There is a KVM stable tag now, so every stable submission goes through Avi/Marcelo.
>
>
>    

It's not a problem.  stable@ will ignore kvm patches not coming from the 
maintainers, and we will recognize cc: stable as a stable request.

(the new approach is to collect the patches in kvm-updates/2.6.x, 
autotest, and forward to stable@).

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

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