Re: [PATCH 3/4] linux-headers: Update to current kvm/next

[Cornelia Huck]

On Mon, Jun 03 2024, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 3, 2024 at 5:58 PM Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Hm, I'm not sure updating to kvm/next is a good idea ("current kvm/next"
>> does not mean anything without a commit hash anyway.) I think we should
>> only update to something that's in Linus' tree already... how stable is
>> kvm/next?
>
> It is stable, things are only applied there once UAPI is set. Even
> rebasing is very rare.
>
> The problem here is that if (as is the case for 6.11) the merge window
> only opens once QEMU is in freeze, waiting for it would delay merging
> the QEMU side by 4 months. In this case, the patches barely missed
> 6.10.

If we're confident that it's stable, can we please mention a hash?
"current" is not very descriptive :)