From: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
"xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] libxl: Support backend domain ID for disks
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:24:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50489609.6050502@tycho.nsa.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1346916391.10570.17.camel@dagon.hellion.org.uk>
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 <dgdegra@tycho.nsa.gov>
>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 12:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-06 21:51 [PATCH RFC/for-4.2?] libxl: Support backend domain ID for disks Daniel De Graaf
2012-08-07 9:36 ` Ian Campbell
2012-08-07 10:38 ` Ian Jackson
2012-08-07 13:56 ` Daniel De Graaf
2012-08-31 8:04 ` Ian Campbell
2012-09-05 17:05 ` [PATCH v2] " Daniel De Graaf
2012-09-06 7:26 ` Ian Campbell
2012-09-06 12:24 ` Daniel De Graaf [this message]
2012-10-09 15:23 ` Ian Jackson
2012-10-09 18:41 ` Daniel De Graaf
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