From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pty: unbreak libvirt
Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:44:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zk0q2gse.fsf@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA9z=3it42pJ_Ukq4T6MOgLCzrkpRYFjiWVCFHh+RLiKVA@mail.gmail.com>
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:
> On 3 January 2013 19:00, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Thanks, applied.
>
> So we now say "char device redirected to /dev/pts/5 (compat_monitor0)"
> rather than "char device compat_monitor0 redirected to /dev/pts/5" ?
> I think that's a reduction in clarity and it's sad that we have to do it.
>
> I also think that everywhere we have something with a specific
> format which we're retaining for the benefit of libvirt we should
> have big warning comments saying "Do not change this because
> libvirt versions older than X.Y depend upon the exact text".
> Otherwise we'll just trip over the same bugs again later.
I don't intend that we keep this forever. But it's hardly compelling
to do it one way vs. the other so compatibility wins.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> -- PMM
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-03 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-03 13:23 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pty: unbreak libvirt Gerd Hoffmann
2013-01-03 13:33 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2013-01-03 18:55 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-03 19:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-01-03 19:10 ` Peter Maydell
2013-01-03 19:44 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
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