Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Xen PV Drivers Lifecycle

2017-01-04 Thread Wei Liu
+1 for this in principle. I have no further comment to make. :-) Wei. ___ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Xen PV Drivers Lifecycle

2017-01-03 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 28 Dec 2016, George Dunlap wrote: > On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Stefano Stabellini > wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> >>> On 20.12.16 at 01:47, wrote: > >> > ## Design Phase > >> > > >> > The first step toward

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Xen PV Drivers Lifecycle

2016-12-28 Thread George Dunlap
On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 11:09 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Jan Beulich wrote: >> >>> On 20.12.16 at 01:47, wrote: >> > ## Design Phase >> > >> > The first step toward acceptance of a new PV protocol is to write a >> > design

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Xen PV Drivers Lifecycle

2016-12-20 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Tue, 20 Dec 2016, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 20.12.16 at 01:47, wrote: > > ## Design Phase > > > > The first step toward acceptance of a new PV protocol is to write a > > design document and send it to xen-devel. It should cover the xenstore > > handshake mechanism,

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC] Xen PV Drivers Lifecycle

2016-12-19 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 20.12.16 at 01:47, wrote: > ## Design Phase > > The first step toward acceptance of a new PV protocol is to write a > design document and send it to xen-devel. It should cover the xenstore > handshake mechanism, the ABI, how the protocol works and anything else >

[Xen-devel] [RFC] Xen PV Drivers Lifecycle

2016-12-19 Thread Stefano Stabellini
Hi all, as you know, we have an issue with the speed of review and acceptance of new PV drivers. In a discussion among committers, George wrote an email with a short proposal to clarify the development lifecycle of new PV drivers and the different expectations at each stage of the process. I took