Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH qemu-xen-traditional 1/2] xen_platform: unplug also SCSI disks [and 1 more messages]

[Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 10, George Dunlap wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 4:39 PM, Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The protocol was introduced before upstream had one, xen-3.0 vs.
> > xen-3.x. I have not digged into 10 year old emails why it was done that
> > way, if it was ever proposed for upstream inclusion. Meanwhile the
> > upstream unplug is used since a two years. This patch would allow to run
> > old SUSE domUs on new non-SUSE dom0s with qemu-trad.
> Given that SuSE kernels are now using the new unplug protocol, I think
> there's no longer any reason to stand on principle.  We take a
> practical approach for emulating other hypervisor interfaces (Hyper-V
> and VMWare); making accomodation for "one of our own" seems pretty
> reasonable.  (I haven't reviewed the patch itself.)


So what should be done with the two patches?
Are they acceptable for staging, or will they be rejected?

Olaf

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