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Re: [Xen-devel] 3.0.3 freeze

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] 3.0.3 freeze
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:21:14 +0100
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:08:00PM +0100, Keir Fraser wrote:
> On 28/8/06 3:58 pm, "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Is this change going into 3.0.3, or is xen-unstable now reflecting the
> > development for 3.0.4 ?  We've got the means to support this new format
> > for hypercalls in libvirt, while keeping compatability for old API
> > (detectable at runtime), but if its not going to 3.0.3 we can postpone
> > this dev work... 
> 
> All bug fixing is going on in the unstable tree: there has been no fork. I'm
> now done with major refactorings (domctl/sysctl on Friday; shadow2->shadow
> today). I wanted those in before 3.0.3 because, although large, they are
> unlikely to break anything, and it is a pain to move patches across branches
> after a fork when only one branch has a major code reorg applied to it. I
> hope you'll agree that the hypercall refactoring has resulted in a cleaner
> interface than the old dom0_ops, and that it is a useful goal to allow the
> dom0 kernel and tools interfaces to evolve separately from each other.

Yes, the re-factoring does look like a good idea from a long term maintenance
POV - it just caught us a little by surprise ! Thanks for clarifying the
current branch situation.

Regards,
Dan.
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