From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] [PULL] qemu-kvm.git uq/master queue Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:41:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4E93122F.5080109@redhat.com> References: <4E930409.6060000@us.ibm.com> <4E9305BD.70809@redhat.com> <4E930774.90806@us.ibm.com> <4E93089B.1080008@redhat.com> <4E930B55.70206@codemonkey.ws> <4E930E33.7090606@redhat.com> <4E931113.1000905@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4E931113.1000905@us.ibm.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 10/10/2011 05:36 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> Ok. So bumping the version is only right if we don't fix subsections. > > > If we bump *any* version from 0.15 -> 1.0, then there's no point at > all in having a subsection. Did we bump versions of relevant devices? > If we break compatibility by using Paolo's new protocol, or doing > subsections as sections, then there's no point in making it a > subsection either. These are workaroundable. For example if you migrate 0.15 to 1.0 you start the destination with -old-subsection-format. Even if you don't, since subsections are rarely present, migration will succeed. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function