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That's all we know. X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: "benjamin.walker@intel.com" , John G Johnson , Swapnil Ingle , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , "tina.zhang@intel.com" , "jag.raman@oracle.com" , "james.r.harris@intel.com" , "elena.ufimtseva@oracle.com" , "Kanth.Ghatraju@oracle.com" , "marcandre.lureau@redhat.com" , "konrad.wilk@oracle.com" , "yuvalkashtan@gmail.com" , "dgilbert@redhat.com" , "ismael@linux.com" , Stefan Hajnoczi , "changpeng.liu@intel.com" , "tomassetti.andrea@gmail.com" , "alex.williamson@redhat.com" , Raphael Norwitz , "xiuchun.lu@intel.com" , Thanos Makatos Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 2:39 PM Felipe Franciosi wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2020, at 10:30 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:> > > > On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 10:14:23AM +0000, Felipe Franciosi wrote: > >>> On Sep 30, 2020, at 3:24 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > >>> On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 09:21:54AM -0700, John G Johnson wrote: > >>>>> On Sep 29, 2020, at 3:37 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 09:58:37AM +0000, Thanos Makatos wrote: > Per Daniel's response on the other fork of the thread, I think we can > develop faster if we're not depending on qemu-devel. With the right > set of maintainers on the project, there's arguably more flexibility > in working at a restricted set of code. QEMU can then update the > submodule when a "checkpoint" is ready. Sure, if you are happy with the submodule approach that's great. On the QEMU side the device name should have an "x-" prefix so it's clear that the feature is experimental and subject to change. This way there is no stability guarantee during development. Both the protocol and command-line can be changed without introducing feature bits and keeping backwards compatibility. Stefan