linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] KVM fix for 3.1-rc5

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Message-ID: <4E66EDBC.4040102@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:06:20 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	KVM list <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] KVM fix for 3.1-rc5

On 09/07/2011 02:20 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Avi Kivity<avi@...hat.com>  wrote:
> >  Linus, please pull from
> >
> >    git://github.com/avikivity/kvm.git kvm-updates/3.1
> >
> >  to receive a fix for a build failure due to a missing instruction size
> >  suffix in inline assembly.
>
> Again, please give me a warm and fuzzy feeling that this is really
> Avi, and the right thing to do, rather than just a "please pull from
> this random tree".

Yup, it's the genuine thing here, and the s/mul/mulq/ is not an 
incredibly clever backdoor.

> It's not that I don't think you are you, but I want people to actually
> *think* about what they are doing and sending me. When you give me a
> kernel.org address, I know you have access to kernel.org, and that
> makes me believe you are you. When you give me a github address, that
> doesn't really mean anything.
>
>

Well, these days access to kernel.org proves a lot less than it used to, 
unfortunately.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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