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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>


Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 4 March 2015 at 00:05, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 03/03/2015 16:03, Igor Mammedov wrote:
>>>> > Maybe we have a candidate now.  That function doesn't seem easy to
>>>> > replace, and it is pretty useful.
>>> Looking at git history there were a number of followup fixes
>>> where 2.13-2.22 function couldn't be used, if we switch to 2.24
>>> we could cleanup that places also.
>>
>> Peter mentioned above that 2.22 is a bit awkward to him, and he's
>> already swamped enough that we should consider doing him a favor. :)
>
> More to the point, Cornelia pointed out that SLES 11 SP 3 is still
> on 2.22.
>
> I guess I don't object to moving forward to 2.22 if somebody wants
> to write the configure patch and add the info to the release notes.

The commit comment for configure:

    glib_req_ver=2.12

States it's the version found in RHEL5. Do we not care about that
anymore? I guess at some point the enterprise distros are only
backporting fixes to an old qemu anyway.

(/me is all for newer glibs btw, there are some handy features)
>
> -- PMM

-- 
Alex Bennée