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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, mst@redhat.com, amit.shah@redhat.com,
	quintela@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 08:53:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1466578399.16954.22.camel@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1466536447-30146-1-git-send-email-dgilbert@redhat.com>

  Hi,

> I think the first two patches are the most controversial;
> they remove migration support for old version of virtio-net and virtio-serial;
> (for virtio-net versions prior to 0.11 and for virtio-serial prior to 0.13).
> I'm working on the basis that migration has bit rotted enough so
> that the streams aren't migration compatible for that long back
> on upstream - but if anyone knows otherwise please shout.

We've gone great lengths to avoid new versions by using subsections
instead for *years*.  So if we are going to cut live migration support
from ancient versions now:  Can we possibly remove the versioning
altogether?

cheers,
  Gerd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-22  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-21 19:13 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-21 19:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/13] virtio-net: Remove old migration version support Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-27  6:46   ` Amit Shah
2016-06-21 19:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/13] virtio-serial: " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-27  6:45   ` Amit Shah
2016-06-21 19:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/13] virtio: Migration helper function and macro Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-22 17:39   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-21 19:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/13] virtio-scsi: Wrap in vmstate Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-22 17:40   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-21 19:13 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/13] virtio-blk: " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-22 17:42   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-21 19:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/13] virtio-rng: " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-22 17:44   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-21 19:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/13] virtio-balloon: " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-22 17:46   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-21 19:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/13] virtio-net: " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-23  7:39   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-21 19:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/13] virtio-serial: " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-23  7:55   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-21 19:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/13] 9pfs: " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-23  8:01   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-30  7:02   ` Greg Kurz
2016-06-21 19:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/13] virtio-input: " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-22  6:48   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-06-22  9:54     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-06-22 10:29       ` Gerd Hoffmann
2016-06-23  8:07   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-21 19:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 12/13] virtio-gpu: " Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-23  8:19   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-21 19:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 13/13] virtio: Update migration docs Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
2016-06-23  8:23   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-22  6:53 ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2016-06-22  9:50   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/13] virtio migration: Flip outer layer to vmstate Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-06-22  8:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-22 10:54   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-06-22 17:36     ` Cornelia Huck
2016-06-24  5:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-06-24  8:02   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-06-27  6:50 ` Amit Shah
2016-06-27  7:53   ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2016-06-28  9:04     ` Amit Shah

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