From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: George Dunlap <dunlapg@umich.edu>
Cc: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH qemu-xen-traditional 1/2] xen_platform: unplug also SCSI disks [and 1 more messages]
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 18:14:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170131171417.GB20351@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFLBxZbGH5UbCWj7K-MuBuq3HOC1F_UT98Hz443j-5i+2kOeGg@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Jan 10, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> wrote:
> > The protocol was introduced before upstream had one, xen-3.0 vs.
> > xen-3.x. I have not digged into 10 year old emails why it was done that
> > way, if it was ever proposed for upstream inclusion. Meanwhile the
> > upstream unplug is used since a two years. This patch would allow to run
> > old SUSE domUs on new non-SUSE dom0s with qemu-trad.
> Given that SuSE kernels are now using the new unplug protocol, I think
> there's no longer any reason to stand on principle. We take a
> practical approach for emulating other hypervisor interfaces (Hyper-V
> and VMWare); making accomodation for "one of our own" seems pretty
> reasonable. (I haven't reviewed the patch itself.)
So what should be done with the two patches?
Are they acceptable for staging, or will they be rejected?
Olaf
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-24 20:11 [PATCH qemu-xen-traditional 0/2] Xen HVM unplug changes Olaf Hering
2016-11-24 20:11 ` [PATCH qemu-xen-traditional 1/2] xen_platform: unplug also SCSI disks Olaf Hering
2016-11-24 20:11 ` [PATCH qemu-xen-traditional 2/2] xen_platform: SUSE xenlinux unplug for emulated PCI Olaf Hering
2017-01-09 14:34 ` [PATCH qemu-xen-traditional 1/2] xen_platform: unplug also SCSI disks [and 1 more messages] Ian Jackson
2017-01-09 16:39 ` Olaf Hering
2017-01-10 10:34 ` George Dunlap
2017-01-31 17:14 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2017-01-31 17:32 ` Ian Jackson
2017-01-31 17:44 ` Olaf Hering
2017-01-09 11:23 ` [PATCH qemu-xen-traditional 0/2] Xen HVM unplug changes Olaf Hering
2017-01-09 14:26 ` Ian Jackson
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