Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] libxl: Support backend domain ID for disks

[Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/06/2012 03:26 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 18:05 +0100, Daniel De Graaf wrote:
>> Allow specification of backend domains for disks, either in the config
>> file or via xl block-attach. This functionality was supported in xend
>> (via an optional command line parameter to block-attach), so should also
>> be supported with libxl.
>>
>> In order to support named backend domains like network-attach, a valid
>> libxl_ctx must now be passed to xlu_cfg_init.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel De Graaf <dgdegra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Sorry but I think in the end this has missed the cut-off for 4.2.0 (we
> are cutting the final RC tomorrow).
> 
> We should be branching soon after the final RC which means 4.3
> development will open in unstable shortly. We should take this into
> unstable then and consider it for 4.2.1.
> 
> In the meantime I suppose we should mention this in the release notes.
> 

That's fine; I just wanted to be sure that the change to xlu_cfg_init
was noticed and that the API change was noted in 4.2.0 if that is needed
to make this acceptable for 4.2.1. Sorry I didn't get this in earlier; I
didn't notice that you wanted me to resubmit until it was too late.

-- 
Daniel De Graaf
National Security Agency

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