[libvirt] [PATCH 00/12] qemu: support chardev for all machvirt config

[Andrea Bolognani]

On Thu, 2017-07-20 at 13:17 +0200, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > Can't think of anything specific, but when I backported
> > the fixes to libvirt 3.2.0 there were quite a few conflicts
> > to take care of, so if Linaro is using a much older libvirt
> > version I can imagine the backport would get even trickier.
> 
> Is the 3.2.0 backport available somewhere public?

I'm afraid that's not yet the case. I see you're using 3.4.0
as your base version, so it wouldn't be of much help anyway.

I took a quick peek at the git tree pointed to in the bug
report and it looks like the backport was created not through
cherry-picking of the relevant upstream commits, but by
applying the patches straight off the mailing list.

That is *not* the correct way to perform a backport, for a
number or reasons:

  * you lose metadata such as R-b tags;

  * you don't have any information linking the downstream
    commit to the respective upstream commit, which will
    make it more difficult to figure out which commits can
    be dropped during the next rebase;

  * most importantly, any issue pointed out during review
    that has a straightforward enough fix not to warrant
    a respin will *still be present* in the backport.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization