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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>
>> One thing that bothers me is that there is a really high rate of change
>> in the qdev stuff. These series touch a lot of code and therefore cause
>> quite a lot of conflicts. That concerns me that the long term
>> maintenance of stable-0.11 is going to be really painful.
>
> The by far worst offender is the property refactoring, and that one 
> has seen no fundamental changes since quite a while.  Lots of little 
> tweaks though, mostly due to conflicts and due to devices being 
> converted to udev introducing build failures.
>
> btw: blueswirl converted more sparc stuff to qdev, thus adding more 
> build failures with the property rework patch applied. 
> http://git.et.redhat.com/?p=qemu-kraxel.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/qdev.v13 
> has fixes (four topmost patches), you might want to cherry pick them 
> if you find your tree not building.
There's more too..  I've got it all straightened out in staging.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori