From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: dlaor@redhat.com, ajax@redhat.com,
Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Change virtio-console to PCI_CLASS_SERIAL_OTHER
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 04:50:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1FAFF7.3080808@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243590193.13990.73.camel@blaa>
Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-29 at 00:45 +0300, Dor Laor wrote:
>
> The more I think about it, no matter how much linear ABI versioning
> sucks, it's possibly the only way to solve this in a reasonably usable
> manners. Distros would just have to suck it up and agree that if they
> cherry-pick an ABI changing patch, they must update the entire ABI to
> the newer upstream ABI version.
>
Can we somehow utilize the save/restore versioning infrastructure? I
think the general idea of universally versioning devices is not a bad
one but I'm not sure whether we need an additional version id or whether
we can just piggy back on the savevm version.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-29 9:51 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 [this message]
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
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