Re: [Xen-devel] xen-compat.h vs 4.5

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 14.01.15 at 12:31, <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-01-14 at 10:36 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> while we don't have any changes in the public interface depending on
>> __XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION__ <relation> 0x00040500, shouldn't
>> we nevertheless update xen-compat.h's
>> __XEN_LATEST_INTERFACE_VERSION__ for 4.5?
> 
> We probably should have done, but I think it is too late now unless we
> think we could justify force pushing such a change, which I doubt.
> 
> I think it's a bit of a tree falling in the woods change anyway, if
> there are no relevant changes would anyone notice if it remained at 4.4?

I noticed when I wanted to set the XEN_INTERFACE_VERSION config
option to 0x00040500 in the 2.6.18-xen tree.

> Perhaps for 4.5.1? (But it doesn't sound entirely stable release
> material too me...)

If we were to do such a change on master only, I think I'd backport
it for 4.5.1 irrespective of how important we'd consider such a change.

Jan


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