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
>
next prev parent 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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