From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43429) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDHz2-0004kr-JK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:41:41 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDHz1-0004Bp-HN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:41:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:7844) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RDHz1-0004Ba-8k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2011 11:41:39 -0400 Message-ID: <4E93122F.5080109@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:41:35 +0200 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4E930409.6060000@us.ibm.com> <4E9305BD.70809@redhat.com> <4E930774.90806@us.ibm.com> <4E93089B.1080008@redhat.com> <4E930B55.70206@codemonkey.ws> <4E930E33.7090606@redhat.com> <4E931113.1000905@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4E931113.1000905@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] [PULL] qemu-kvm.git uq/master queue List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org On 10/10/2011 05:36 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> 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. Did we bump versions of relevant devices? > 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. These are workaroundable. For example if you migrate 0.15 to 1.0 you start the destination with -old-subsection-format. Even if you don't, since subsections are rarely present, migration will succeed. -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function