Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] migration: remove subsections in fdc and rtl8139 and bump versions

[Anthony Liguori]

On 08/04/2011 07:59 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 03.08.2011 23:42, schrieb Juan Quintela:
> > Anthony Liguori<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > > On 08/03/2011 04:00 AM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >
> > > I don't have a problem with Paolo's new protocol.  In fact, I'm strong
> > > in favor of applying it to master.  But I don't like the idea of
> > > adding a new migration protocol with no testing in master before
> > > putting it in a release.
> >
> > I have.  If we are changing a protocol in an incompatible version, we
> > can remove a lot of warts that current descriptions have.  Not that
> > Paolo protocol is bad, but if we are going to do some change, adding
> > things like size, removing previous warts, etc is the way to go.
>
> So how about stating clearly that migrating between 0.x and 1.x won't
> work and using the next few months to develop a sane migration protocol?

I'm all for it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> We'll still have to do something about 0.15 and it's not very nice to
> break migration twice, but seems there is no way around it.
>
> Kevin