From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: Re: xen-compat.h vs 4.5 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 13:52:34 -0500 Message-ID: <20150114185234.GC2013@l.oracle.com> References: <54B654CF0200007800054B19@mail.emea.novell.com> <1421235061.19103.224.camel@citrix.com> <54B664730200007800054C68@mail.emea.novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail6.bemta4.messagelabs.com ([85.158.143.247]) by lists.xen.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1YBT3Y-0004tD-Jk for xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:52:40 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <54B664730200007800054C68@mail.emea.novell.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Jan Beulich Cc: xen-devel , Ian Campbell List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:43:31AM +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >>> On 14.01.15 at 12:31, wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 10:36 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote: > >> while we don't have any changes in the public interface depending on > >> __XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION__ 0x00040500, shouldn't > >> we nevertheless update xen-compat.h's > >> __XEN_LATEST_INTERFACE_VERSION__ for 4.5? > > > > We probably should have done, but I think it is too late now unless we > > think we could justify force pushing such a change, which I doubt. > > > > I think it's a bit of a tree falling in the woods change anyway, if > > there are no relevant changes would anyone notice if it remained at 4.4? > > I noticed when I wanted to set the XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION config > option to 0x00040500 in the 2.6.18-xen tree. > > > Perhaps for 4.5.1? (But it doesn't sound entirely stable release > > material too me...) > > If we were to do such a change on master only, I think I'd backport > it for 4.5.1 irrespective of how important we'd consider such a change. I concur. > > Jan >