Re: [PATCH V2 1/7] block/rbd: bump librbd requirement to luminous release

[Peter Lieven]

Am 15.02.21 um 11:24 schrieb Daniel P. Berrangé:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Peter Lieven wrote:
> > even luminous (version 12.2) is unmaintained for over 3 years now.
> > Bump the requirement to get rid of the ifdef'ry in the code.
> We have clear rules on when we bump minimum versions, determined by
> the OS platforms we target:
>
>    https://qemu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/system/build-platforms.html
>
> At this time RHEL-7 is usually the oldest platform, and it
> builds with RBD 10.2.5, so we can't bump the version to 12.2.
>
> I'm afraid this patch has to be dropped.


I have asked exactly this question before I started work on this series and got 
reply

from Jason that he sees no problem in bumping to a release which is already 
unmaintained

for 3 years.


If qemu 6.0 is required to build on RHEL-7 than I am afraid we can abandon the 
whole series.


Peter