From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel De Graaf Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] libxl: Support backend domain ID for disks Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:24:41 -0400 Message-ID: <50489609.6050502@tycho.nsa.gov> References: <1346400260.27277.93.camel@zakaz.uk.xensource.com> <1346864713-28732-1-git-send-email-dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov> <1346916391.10570.17.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1346916391.10570.17.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Ian Campbell Cc: Ian Jackson , "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On 09/06/2012 03:26 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 18:05 +0100, Daniel De Graaf wrote: >> Allow specification of backend domains for disks, either in the config >> file or via xl block-attach. This functionality was supported in xend >> (via an optional command line parameter to block-attach), so should also >> be supported with libxl. >> >> In order to support named backend domains like network-attach, a valid >> libxl_ctx must now be passed to xlu_cfg_init. >> >> Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf > > Sorry but I think in the end this has missed the cut-off for 4.2.0 (we > are cutting the final RC tomorrow). > > We should be branching soon after the final RC which means 4.3 > development will open in unstable shortly. We should take this into > unstable then and consider it for 4.2.1. > > In the meantime I suppose we should mention this in the release notes. > That's fine; I just wanted to be sure that the change to xlu_cfg_init was noticed and that the API change was noted in 4.2.0 if that is needed to make this acceptable for 4.2.1. Sorry I didn't get this in earlier; I didn't notice that you wanted me to resubmit until it was too late. -- Daniel De Graaf National Security Agency