From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:56762) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPK4z-0002R8-Oc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:58:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPK4u-0004q9-KN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:58:21 -0400 Received: from greensocs.com ([87.106.252.221]:60877 helo=s15328186.onlinehome-server.info) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPK4u-0004ps-Dt for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:58:16 -0400 Message-ID: <51633D72.3090409@greensocs.com> Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:58:10 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?S09OUkFEIEZyw6lkw6lyaWM=?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1365085745-14385-1-git-send-email-fred.konrad@greensocs.com> <87mwtdgfb9.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <5162F7A9.2040000@greensocs.com> <5162FAEE.1060208@greensocs.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 0/7] virtio-serial refactoring. List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com, Anthony Liguori , mark.burton@greensocs.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 08/04/2013 19:16, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 8 April 2013 18:14, KONRAD Fr=C3=A9d=C3=A9ric wrote: >> On 08/04/2013 19:03, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> You specifically don't want to change the register_savevm name, >>> because otherwise you'll break migration (we use the ID string >>> to identify what incoming migration data is). >> Ok, you mean migration between two qemu's version with the different >> name? > Yes; that is, if you commit a patch which changes that string > then migration between a QEMU before that patch and one after > it will not work. > > -- PMM Ok, it's what I thought, so I'll just change TYPE_VIRTIO_X. Thanks, Fred