From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com, George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com,
ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com, cyliu@suse.com,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 2/5] libxl: add query function for backend support by device model
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:09:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160330140908.GD5656@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56FBDC6C.6030200@suse.com>
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 04:02:20PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> On 30/03/16 15:53, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 02:05:55PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> >> Add a function to query whether the device model is supporting a
> >> specific backend type. The device model is writing the supported
> >> backend types to Xenstore on startup. The new query function checks
> >> for the appropriate entry to be present.
> >>
> >> As not all versions of qemu are capable to indicate support of
> >> specific backends the query function is to be called with an indicator
> >> whether the default return value should be "supported" (in case qemu
> >> doesn't know set any support information) or "not supported".
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
> >
> > The code itself looks straightforward enough.
> >
> > But note that this is a new protocol that needs to be supported
> > essentially forever. I've CC QEMU maintainers for their input.
>
> Okay, I'll send the qemu patch now.
>
And also a patch to docs/misc/xenstore-paths.markdown please.
Wei.
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Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-30 12:05 [PATCH v5 0/5] libxl: add support for qemu base pvusb backend Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 1/5] libxl: make libxl__need_xenpv_qemu() operate on domain config Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 13:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-30 14:02 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 2/5] libxl: add query function for backend support by device model Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 13:44 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-30 13:59 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 13:53 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-30 14:02 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 14:09 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-03-30 14:11 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 14:26 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-30 15:55 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-30 15:59 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-30 16:07 ` Anthony PERARD
2016-03-30 14:10 ` George Dunlap
2016-03-30 14:27 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-30 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 3/5] libxl: add new pvusb backend "qusb" provided by qemu Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 14:19 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-30 14:34 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 14:38 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-30 16:16 ` Wei Liu
2016-03-30 17:09 ` Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 4/5] libxl: add service function to check whether device model is running Juergen Gross
2016-03-30 12:05 ` [PATCH v5 5/5] libxl: check for dynamic device model start required Juergen Gross
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