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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: remove subsections in fdc and
 rtl8139 and bump versions
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To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, quintela@redhat.com

On 08/04/2011 07:59 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 03.08.2011 23:42, schrieb Juan Quintela:
>> Anthony Liguori<anthony@codemonkey.ws>  wrote:
>>> On 08/03/2011 04:00 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>>
>>> I don't have a problem with Paolo's new protocol.  In fact, I'm strong
>>> in favor of applying it to master.  But I don't like the idea of
>>> adding a new migration protocol with no testing in master before
>>> putting it in a release.
>>
>> I have.  If we are changing a protocol in an incompatible version, we
>> can remove a lot of warts that current descriptions have.  Not that
>> Paolo protocol is bad, but if we are going to do some change, adding
>> things like size, removing previous warts, etc is the way to go.
>
> So how about stating clearly that migrating between 0.x and 1.x won't
> work and using the next few months to develop a sane migration protocol?

I'm all for it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> We'll still have to do something about 0.15 and it's not very nice to
> break migration twice, but seems there is no way around it.
>
> Kevin
>