[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCHv2 1/4] libxl: extend physinfo structure

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paolo Bonzini writes ("Re: [PATCHv2 1/4] libxl: extend physinfo structure"):
> Vincent, Stefano, is it okay to break the ABI?

Yes, it is fine to break the ABI.

> If so, I suggest adding an initial member to be filled with sizeof() of 
> the structure, similar to many Win32 APIs like GetVersionEx.

We've basically decided we don't need to do that.  Libraries from
different major versions of Xen will not be ABI-compatible and will
have different sonames.  We intend that binaries linked to old
libraries will continue to work.

Ian.

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