On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:10:50PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 at 13:48, <miny...@acm.org> wrote: > > > > I believe we are not in softfreeze yet, and this is the only real > > fix I have for IPMI at the moment. > > > > This was posted Nov 2018 with little commentary. > > > > The following changes since commit 474f3938d79ab36b9231c9ad3b5a9314c2aeacde: > > > > Merge remote-tracking branch > > 'remotes/amarkovic/tags/mips-queue-jun-21-2019' into staging (2019-06-21 > > 15:40:50 +0100) > > > > are available in the Git repository at: > > > > git://github.com/cminyard/qemu.git tags/ipmi-for-release-20190627 > > > > for you to fetch changes up to bddef5881d0c935a5d9d8e15f822d9d700666ae6: > > > > ipmi: Add a UUID device property (2019-06-26 15:31:33 -0500) > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Add a UUID device property to IPMI > > > > This is fairly important for two reasons: > > > > * It allows a BMC to be created with no UUID, returning an error, which > > is the behavior of many BMCs in the world. > > * It lets the user set the UUID to a fixed value. > > > > Some software using IPMI will get confused if it gets different UUIDs > > from what should be the same device, which is what happens now if qemu > > quits and restarts. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Corey Minyard (2): > > qdev: Add a no default uuid property > > ipmi: Add a UUID device property > > I have to say I'm not entirely happy with applying a pullreq > with patches that are unreviewed and were last posted on list > over six months ago. Can you post a v2 to try to solicit code > review for them before we put them into master, please? > > (Sometimes patches don't get review, and we generally take > them anyway; I do that myself from time to time. It's the > combination of the six-months-since-patches-posted plus the > imminent freeze deadline that gives me pause in this case.)
Will do. I looked around and tried to find the freeze dates, and I couldn't find anything published. If I had known it was close, I would have waited. -corey