Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.10 v3 2/3] hw/acpi: Move acpi_set_pci_info to pcihp

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 05:00:18PM +0100, Anthony PERARD wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > Clean it up after 2.10.
> > > > >   
> > > 
> > > So is the v2 good enough or do I need to resend it?
> > Do you really need it in 2.10?
> > it's only 2 days left till release so unless it's blocker
> > I'd wait till after release and do clean fix.
> 
> It mostly means that someone building QEMU 2.10 would be unable to do
> PCI passthrough hotplug. But PCI PT works fine when the device is added
> before a guest is started. Maybe hotplug can work as well with extra
> steps done in the guest to force to probe for new devices.
> 
> So I would say it is not a blocker, and could be added in the known
> issue of the release notes?

Regressions aren't nice. But risk to working setups isn't nice either.
If you can come up with a patch that obviously limits the effect to xen
only, I'll merge it or ack for merge through Xen tree.

> -- 
> Anthony PERARD