From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
Dor Laor <dlaor@redhat.com>,
ajax@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Change virtio-console to PCI_CLASS_SERIAL_OTHER
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 14:20:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905281420.14840.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090528130419.GC24488@redhat.com>
> > IMHO think the only sane response is "don't do that". Trying to support
> > migration between different qemu versions just isn't worth the pain.
>
> I think that further more, we shouldn't make a change like altering
> the PCI device class in the stable branch, only in the unstable
> branch. If we restrict the stable branch to bug fixes, then it ought
> to be (more?) practical to support save under 0.10 and restore under
> 0.11, without needing to support the hard problem of save under 0.10
> and restore under 1.00 (or whatever next major release branch is)
0.11 is the next major release series. The current stable releases are 0.10.x.
I agree we shouldn't be making this sort of change on the stable branch,
precisely because it's reasonable to expect stable releases to be backwards
compatible.
Paul
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-28 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-22 17:14 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Change virtio-console to PCI_CLASS_SERIAL_OTHER Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-24 9:11 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-27 14:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-27 17:42 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-27 22:37 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-28 9:33 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-28 9:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-28 12:53 ` Paul Brook
2009-05-28 12:56 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-28 13:22 ` Paul Brook
2009-05-28 13:29 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-28 21:45 ` Dor Laor
2009-05-29 9:43 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-29 9:50 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-31 14:32 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-29 9:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-29 10:09 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-31 14:47 ` Dor Laor
2009-06-02 8:49 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-06-02 13:08 ` Dor Laor
2009-06-02 13:39 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-31 14:35 ` Dor Laor
2009-06-02 8:49 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-28 13:04 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2009-05-28 13:19 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-31 18:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-05-28 13:20 ` Paul Brook [this message]
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