Re: [PATCH 12/17] Increment virtio-net savevm version to avoid conflict with upstream QEMU.

From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/17] Increment virtio-net savevm version to avoid conflict with upstream QEMU.
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 18:33:38 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A109ED2.7030208@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A1043B0.5060308@redhat.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> When TAP_VNET_HDR eventually merges into upstream QEMU, it cannot 
>> change the
>> format of the version 6 savevm data.  This means that we're going to 
>> have to
>> bump the version up to 7.  I'm happy to reserve version 7 as having 
>> TAP_VNET_HDR
>> support to allow time to include this support in upstream QEMU.
>>
>> For those shipping products based on KVM though, it's important that 
>> we do not
>> conflict with upstream QEMU versioning or else it's going to result 
>> in breakage
>> of backwards compatibility.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>>
>>   
>
> Duplicate signoff.

Do you care enough for me to resubmit?

Regards,

Anthony Liguori