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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"quintela@redhat.com" <quintela@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11] test-vmstate: add test case to verify we don't change VMState
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:42:50 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D8A3F2A.30905@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D8A21A4.3040404@siemens.com>

On 03/23/2011 11:36 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>
> This is true for incompatible devices, but not for those that are
> perfectly exchangeable (like in-kernel vs. user-space irqchip).

I view this as the exception that proves the rule.

We should handle cases like this as very special cases.  I've found 
almost close to a dozen cases where we've got devices with conflicting 
names that aren't compatible and so far, none that truly are.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jan
>

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-23 18:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-23  0:16 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/11] Add live migration unit tests Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  8:13   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-23  8:19     ` Roy Tam
2011-03-23  8:41       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-23  8:58         ` Roy Tam
2011-03-23  9:19           ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2011-03-23  9:22           ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 02/11] vmstate: register all VMStateDescriptions Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  9:00   ` Alon Levy
2011-03-23 12:30   ` Peter Maydell
2011-03-23 12:37     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 03/11] vmstate: for vmstate types that reuse the same field, make sure name is unique Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  2:29   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 04/11] sb16: fix migration quirk Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  9:51   ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 12:16     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 05/11] vga-isa: fix migration by breaking it Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  9:54   ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/11] fdc: fix migration of non-ISA fdc devices Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 07/11] eeprom93xx: Use the new hack macro to avoid duplicate field names Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  9:58   ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 12:34     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 14:14       ` Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 14:33         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 08/11] fw_cfg: make sure all VMState fields are unique Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 09/11] pckbd: make non-ISA pckbd use a unique name Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 10/11] vl: add a new -vmstate-dump option to write a VMState JSON schema Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  0:16 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 11/11] test-vmstate: add test case to verify we don't change VMState Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  2:31   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23  8:37   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-03-23 10:22   ` Peter Maydell
2011-03-23 12:42     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 14:17       ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 14:52         ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 15:00           ` Peter Maydell
2011-03-23 15:06             ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-23 16:27             ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 16:36               ` Jan Kiszka
2011-03-23 18:42                 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2011-03-23 16:45               ` Peter Maydell
2011-03-23 17:01                 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 15:26           ` Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 16:14             ` Anthony Liguori
2011-03-23 16:44               ` Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 14:19     ` Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 14:36       ` Peter Maydell
2011-03-23 15:13         ` Juan Quintela
2011-03-23 15:24           ` Peter Maydell

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