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From: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 for Xen 4.6 0/6] Several PSR fixes in
	libxl
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 11:30:53 +0100
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On Tue, 2015-09-29 at 10:33 +0100, Wei Liu wrote:
> Now the reasoning bits. Yes, I'm arguing with myself, :-)
> 
> We can of course fix it post-4.6, but the released APIs need to be
> maintained forever (even if it is in fact broken). That would definitely
> involve lots of compatibility cruft if we fix it post 4.6. 
> 
> This patch series is simple enough to reason about and has received
> adequate review from expert in the field, so I have hight confidence in
> it being correct.
> 
> I think the benefit of accepting it out-weights the downside.

Applied all 6 to staging and staging-4.6, with the one tweak discussed in
reply to #5.