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

[Ian Jackson <iwj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.

Thanks,
Ian.