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charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-purgate-ID: tlsNG-ef75cf/1787121639-342F4AE4-4239CA7D/0/0 X-purgate-type: clean X-purgate-size: 1794 On 18.08.2026 23:42, Samuel Thibault wrote: > 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, Which is one of the problems with it. Why are we forcing people to use a long outdated version? Jan > it's a library that has a quite stable API, and the pci > xen interface is supposed to keep backward compatibility. > > Samuel >