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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] target-i386: "custom" CPU model +
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To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: mimu@linux.vnet.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Jiri Denemark <jdenemar@redhat.com>, Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?F=E4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>, rth@twiddle.net

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 02:42:37PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 07:29:15PM +0200, Andreas F=E4rber wrote:
> > In summary you seem to be saying that all the years we have spent
> > fiddling around with those mind-boggling compat_props in QEMU were in
> > vain because libvirt now wants to start their own versioning system t=
o
> > give users more degrees of freedom even when you can't articulate a
> > single concrete reason why users may want to do so.
>=20
> I had a similar reaction when I learned about this libvirt
> expectation/requirement I was never aware of. But "we spent lots of
> effort trying to do things differently" doesn't seem like a valid
> justification for design decision.

"Users will be hurt because they'll run untested configurations"
seems like a valid reason.

> --=20
> Eduardo