Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/18] qapi-types.py: Implement 'base' for unions

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:02:26 -0600
Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 08/29/2013 10:33 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> 
> >>>
> >>> Strange, it appears on your pull request... But anyway, your series
> >>> made it into 1.6.0, so I think we'll need the missing patch in 1.6.1 too?
> >>
> >> There's no user in 1.6 (or would we have a build failure) because I
> >> didn't merge blockdev-add, so I guess it doesn't matter.
> > 
> > I won't say it's a huge deal, but any downstreamers basing on 1.6 will
> > have a hard time if they backport blockdev-add or any future command
> > that my depend on this.
> 
> Any downstreamers that plans to backport blockdev-add would also
> backport this as part of their efforts.  I don't see that as any
> different from any other backport effort that includes requiring
> multiple non-contiguous pre-req patches.

Backport work can be hard. I'd praise people for making it easier
for me and would curse people for making it harder for no reason.

> We don't need it on the 1.6
> stable tree, and downstream is no worse for the wear.

Why is the feature there in the first place then?