From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9yju-0006Uy-UR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:51:02 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9yjq-0006RU-N5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:51:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41240 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9yjq-0006RD-GD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:50:58 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:49903) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9yjp-0002ad-R7 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 29 May 2009 05:50:58 -0400 Received: from d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.106]) by e34.co.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n4T9m1sB025691 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 03:48:01 -0600 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (d03av03.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.169]) by d03relay04.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n4T9or6I168322 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 03:50:53 -0600 Received: from d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av03.boulder.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n4T9oqW4006573 for ; Fri, 29 May 2009 03:50:52 -0600 Message-ID: <4A1FAFF7.3080808@us.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 04:50:47 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Change virtio-console to PCI_CLASS_SERIAL_OTHER References: <1243012478.29542.18.camel@blaa> <200905281353.50463.paul@codesourcery.com> <4A1E8A16.3060101@us.ibm.com> <200905281422.52420.paul@codesourcery.com> <4A1E91AF.9050907@us.ibm.com> <4A1F05DE.6060806@redhat.com> <1243590193.13990.73.camel@blaa> In-Reply-To: <1243590193.13990.73.camel@blaa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mark McLoughlin Cc: dlaor@redhat.com, ajax@redhat.com, Paul Brook , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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. > >