Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0 of 2] pci passthrough: support "managed" pci device in xend for libvirt usage

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 15:48 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> I am actually in favour of adding things in both. There are multiple
> distros that are still using Xen 4.1 and some of them have a long
> life-cycle.

Even if we were to take xend patches in unstable I wouldn't expect them
to be backported to 4.1 at this point.

>  Adding in features that are also reflected in 'xl' looks to be the
> doing the right thing for the customers and with the future in mind.

In order for us to start habitually taking patches which implement new
features in xend again someone needs to step up and take responsibility
for it. i.e. reviewing the patches and fixing the regressions they
introduce. Probably they should add themselves to MAINTAINERS.

I've no objections to someone who wants to become the xend maintainer
stepping up and doing the job but just slapping patches in isn't the
answer.

Personally I think that having made the decision to deprecate xend we
should just let it die and not prolong the pain.

Ian.



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