Re: [Qemu-devel] [6324] Return -errno on write failure (Gleb Natapov)

[François Revol]

> > The maintainer of our port didn't submit patches because he was too
> > busy to clean it up AFAIK.
> > I'm not even sure it'd still build on BeOS, but that'd certainly
> > help
> > building in Haiku.
> >
> >
> >> So I'm not inclined to change code that conforms to ANSI unless
> >> someone
> >> puts the work into supporting BeOS in mainline QEMU and that said
> >> work
> >> doesn't require very invasive changes.
> >>
> >
> > As per other ports, it's not invasive it's just a large diff and
> > it's
> > fastidious to make sure each and every occurence is fixed.
> >
>
> Which is a good encouragement to invest the time in pushing your work
> upstream.  It's unfair to ask upstream QEMU to make changes to make
> external ports simpler to maintain though.

Who said I asked you to do it ?
I said I would.
And it's not to make it simpler to maintain outside. It's just to make
sure it's known, and make it simpler to push the rest upstream, because
I'm used to this issue.

I don't control what others do. As for me I usually send diffs early so
I don't have to maintain forks because I know how time consuming it is.

François.