From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3
 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities]
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:24:04 -0500
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Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, dlaor@redhat.com,
	Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>,
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
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Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 06/15/2009 09:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> 2) Whenever the default machine type changes in a guest-visible way, 
>> introduce a new machine type
>
> s/whenever/qemu stable release/
>
>>  - Use explicit versions in name: pc-v1, pc-v2
>
> pc-qemu-0.10?
>
> This is similar to a hardware vendor's model number (though they tend 
> to change components without changing model numbers, though naughty 
> vendors)

Yup, that makes a whole lot of sense.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori