Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] [PULL] qemu-kvm.git uq/master queue

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

On 10/10/2011 10:24 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 10/10/2011 05:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 10/10/2011 10:00 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> On 10/10/2011 04:55 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hrm, sorry about that. In the future, it would be helpful to explicitly
>>>> withdrawal a PULL request.
>>>>
>>>> Do you want me to revert?
>>>
>>> We'll send the revert together with the new patch.
>>>
>>>> FWIW, I think bumping the version is the right thing to do.
>>>
>>> Why?
>>
>> Because we still haven't fixed subsections. Juan's patches help but they can
>> still result in sending bad data to and older QEMU that won't handle it properly.
>>
>> We need to figure out a proper fix for subsections, either Paolo's protocol
>> change or moving subsections out to a detected section.
>
> Ok. So bumping the version is only right if we don't fix subsections.

If we bump *any* version from 0.15 -> 1.0, then there's no point at all in 
having a subsection.  If we break compatibility by using Paolo's new protocol, 
or doing subsections as sections, then there's no point in making it a 
subsection either.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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