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From: Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix VMState design flaws
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:50:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31vm9jlob.fsf@neno.mitica> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AAEAC27.3070300@gnu.org> (Paolo Bonzini's message of "Mon, 14 Sep 2009 22:48:39 +0200")

Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:
>>    * Add version_id field to post_load().  Now we can assign default values
>>      in post_load for old versions of the state (ps2_kbd as example).
>
> While this is a good idea, why don't we first reset the devices upon
> load, which would also set the default values?...

It is safe to do that unconditionally?
If so, I am all for it.  We can:
- add reset field to vmstate
- add default values to some fields, if it makse sense (haven't yet
  looked at reset code).

Later, Juan.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-14 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-14 20:15 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Fix VMState design flaws Juan Quintela
2009-09-14 20:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] vmstate: remove const for put operations Juan Quintela
2009-09-14 20:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] vmstate: add version_id argument to post_load Juan Quintela
2009-09-14 20:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] vmstate: remove ps2_kbd_load_old() Juan Quintela
2009-09-14 20:45   ` [Qemu-devel] " Paolo Bonzini
2009-09-14 20:48     ` Juan Quintela
2009-09-14 20:15 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] vmstate: Add support for sending partial arrays Juan Quintela
2009-09-14 20:48 ` [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] Fix VMState design flaws Paolo Bonzini
2009-09-14 20:50   ` Juan Quintela [this message]
2009-09-14 21:30     ` Paolo Bonzini

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