Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00 of 16 RFC] add libxl support for blktap3 and introduce the blktap3 build system

[Thanos Makatos <thanos.makatos@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Campbell
> Sent: 26 October 2012 12:15
> To: Thanos Makatos
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00 of 16 RFC] add libxl support for
> blktap3 and introduce the blktap3 build system
> 
> As it stands this series will break the build and/or xl functionality
> at various points. I recommend ordering them as:
>       * Stage 1: populate tools/blktap3, make it build with make -C
>         tools/blktap3 (build breakage within tools/blktap3 doesn't
>         matter during this stage)
>       * Stage 2: connect tools/blktap3 to the top-level build system,
>         but don't use it anywhere yet. At this point tools/blktap3 must
>         compile successfully.
>       * Third tranche: Patch libxl/xl etc to make them use blktap3
>         instead of blktap2.

OK this sounds plausible.
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