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charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4a9b5ae9-b37b-4a6c-8ee0-7e7571c99fb5@suse.com> Organization: I am not organized X-purgate-ID: tlsNG-33051d/1787089356-6CADC4E9-77A26F84/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 1652 Jürgen Groß, le mar. 18 août 2026 07:43:34 +0200, a ecrit: > On 17.08.26 18:37, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Juergen Gross, le lun. 17 août 2026 10:24:02 +0200, a ecrit: > > > On 17.08.26 09:48, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Juergen Gross, le lun. 17 août 2026 09:18:41 +0200, a ecrit: > > > > > There is no user of libpci left in stubdoms. > > > > > > > > > > Remove libpci from the stubdom build system. > > > > > > > > Wouldn't it be useful to keep this for anybody who would want to drive a > > > > PCI card from a stubdomain? > > > > > > > > I mean, in the zlib case, it's really a mere question of build & link, > > > > so we don't need to ship it, people can do it themselves easily like for > > > > any other library. > > > > > > > > But here there is actual porting work, that we'd better not lose but > > > > keep shipping. > > > > > > This is all still available via git. > > > > No, it is not really. > > > > I keep reading this argument, but people will not know that something > > exists in the git history, and will just assume that it does not exist > > and has to be written. > > What about adding a comment to the stubdom Makefile in a separate patch, like: > > # pciutils support has been removed with commit , revert that patch > # in case it is needed again. > > I think this would be preferable over unused and probably bit-rotten code in > the repository. I don't see why it would be bit-rotten, since the pciutils version in used is fixed, it's a library that has a quite stable API, and the pci xen interface is supposed to keep backward compatibility. Samuel