2.6.27 KVM numbers are incorrect [LWN.net]

2.6.27 KVM numbers are incorrect

Posted Jul 3, 2008 7:49 UTC (Thu) by avik (guest, #704)
Parent article: Some development statistics for 2.6.26 - and beyond

The commit count is an artifact of how the kvm git tree is managed.

In reality expect around 60 commits for 2.6.27-rc1 (well below the kvm average).

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2.6.27 KVM numbers are incorrect

Posted Jul 3, 2008 11:44 UTC (Thu) by Felix_the_Mac (guest, #32242) [Link]


Avi,

I am unsure how the KVM changelog (http://kvm.qumranet.com/kvmwiki/ChangeLog) relates to the
kernel version.

i.e. Will 2.6.26-release contain all (kernel parts) of KVM-70?
Or will that be in 2.6.27-rc1?

How can one tell?

Thanks

2.6.27 KVM numbers are incorrect

Posted Jul 3, 2008 13:56 UTC (Thu) by avik (guest, #704) [Link]

There's no 1:1 correspondence.

kvm-nn releases are development snapshots, really, and contain new features, bug fixes, and
new bugs.

Linux releases will generally contain the last kvm snapshot before the merge windows starts,
and bug fixes that accumulate in the 2+ months up to the release.  So 2.6.27-rc1 will roughly
contain kvm-70 plus all bug fixes since applied.

2.6.27 KVM numbers are incorrect

Posted Jul 6, 2008 11:59 UTC (Sun) by Felix_the_Mac (guest, #32242) [Link]

Thanks for the explanation.

"So 2.6.27-rc1 will roughly contain kvm-70 plus all bug fixes since applied."

Unless KVM-71 comes out soon! :-)