Re: [PATCH-for-4.15] tools/libs/store: cleanup libxenstore interface

[Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 24.03.21 12:30, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Jürgen Groß writes ("Re: [PATCH-for-4.15] tools/libs/store: cleanup libxenstore 
> interface"):
> > On 24.03.21 12:02, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > > Is it possible to do sort this out in a more minimal way ?  Eg we
> > > could change the name to namespace it properly.  (I haven't looked at
> > > the code in detail and am still rather under-caffeinated so maybe I am
> > > talking nonsense here.)
> > No nonsense. This would be the really minimum option (apart from doing
> > nothing).
> >
> > I can setup the patch for that and keep the rest for 4.16 (which will
> > then probably need to bump the so version).
> Hmmm.  Maybe it would be less disruptive to punt the whole lot for
> xen-next.  That way we don't have a silent withdrawl in one release
> followed by a soname bump in the next.
>
> If you're keen to change this for 4.15, please feel free to show me
> what the patch looks like.  But I would be inclined to postpone this.
Minimal variant sent. I'm not keen to have that for 4.15, but the patch
was just ready. :-)

Juergen

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