From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/17] Increment virtio-net savevm version to avoid conflict with upstream QEMU. Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 18:33:38 -0500 Message-ID: <4A109ED2.7030208@codemonkey.ws> References: <1242574999-20887-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <1242574999-20887-14-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <4A1043B0.5060308@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anthony Liguori , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.29]:54928 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753830AbZEQXdk (ORCPT ); Sun, 17 May 2009 19:33:40 -0400 Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 3so1775445yxj.1 for ; Sun, 17 May 2009 16:33:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A1043B0.5060308@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: >> When TAP_VNET_HDR eventually merges into upstream QEMU, it cannot >> change the >> format of the version 6 savevm data. This means that we're going to >> have to >> bump the version up to 7. I'm happy to reserve version 7 as having >> TAP_VNET_HDR >> support to allow time to include this support in upstream QEMU. >> >> For those shipping products based on KVM though, it's important that >> we do not >> conflict with upstream QEMU versioning or else it's going to result >> in breakage >> of backwards compatibility. >> >> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori >> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity >> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori >> >> > > Duplicate signoff. Do you care enough for me to resubmit? Regards, Anthony Liguori