From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] KVM: New guest debug interface Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:48:40 +0200 Message-ID: <493F8268.2040903@redhat.com> References: <20081127114342.10901.31992.stgit@mchn012c.ww002.siemens.net> <20081127114343.10901.26107.stgit@mchn012c.ww002.siemens.net> <493B9DAE.7050007@redhat.com> <493CE546.2030507@siemens.com> <493CEA10.2000104@redhat.com> <493D255B.908@siemens.com> <493D35F6.10002@redhat.com> <493D3A8E.1080101@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, Hollis Blanchard , Joerg Roedel To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:52930 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754836AbYLJIsr (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:48:47 -0500 In-Reply-To: <493D3A8E.1080101@siemens.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jan Kiszka wrote: >> btw, is it possible to emulate the old interface on top of the new >> implementation? I feel unconfortable with dropping an interface (albeit >> an unused one) without even a warning. >> > > Would be possible, I guess - but do we really have to care? It only > worked for VMX, only on UP, qemu has no support for it (I'm planning to > submit the new interface once it's merged and settled), and I don't > think many people actually touched the old one so far. And those who may > throw the old IOCTL at a new kernel will get a proper error on return. > Is this problematic? > No, just exploring our options. I'm okay with dropping the old implementation. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function