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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.
>
>   

  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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