[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [PATCH 2/4] stubdom: remove pciutils
- To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:40:37 +0200
- Authentication-results: eu.smtp.expurgate.cloud; dkim=pass header.s=google header.d=suse.com header.i="@suse.com" header.h="Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:Autocrypt:From:Cc:Content-Language:References:To:Subject:User-Agent:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID"
- Autocrypt: addr=jbeulich@xxxxxxxx; keydata= xsDiBFk3nEQRBADAEaSw6zC/EJkiwGPXbWtPxl2xCdSoeepS07jW8UgcHNurfHvUzogEq5xk hu507c3BarVjyWCJOylMNR98Yd8VqD9UfmX0Hb8/BrA+Hl6/DB/eqGptrf4BSRwcZQM32aZK 7Pj2XbGWIUrZrd70x1eAP9QE3P79Y2oLrsCgbZJfEwCgvz9JjGmQqQkRiTVzlZVCJYcyGGsD /0tbFCzD2h20ahe8rC1gbb3K3qk+LpBtvjBu1RY9drYk0NymiGbJWZgab6t1jM7sk2vuf0Py O9Hf9XBmK0uE9IgMaiCpc32XV9oASz6UJebwkX+zF2jG5I1BfnO9g7KlotcA/v5ClMjgo6Gl MDY4HxoSRu3i1cqqSDtVlt+AOVBJBACrZcnHAUSuCXBPy0jOlBhxPqRWv6ND4c9PH1xjQ3NP nxJuMBS8rnNg22uyfAgmBKNLpLgAGVRMZGaGoJObGf72s6TeIqKJo/LtggAS9qAUiuKVnygo 3wjfkS9A3DRO+SpU7JqWdsveeIQyeyEJ/8PTowmSQLakF+3fote9ybzd880fSmFuIEJldWxp Y2ggPGpiZXVsaWNoQHN1c2UuY29tPsJgBBMRAgAgBQJZN5xEAhsDBgsJCAcDAgQVAggDBBYC AwECHgECF4AACgkQoDSui/t3IH4J+wCfQ5jHdEjCRHj23O/5ttg9r9OIruwAn3103WUITZee e7Sbg12UgcQ5lv7SzsFNBFk3nEQQCACCuTjCjFOUdi5Nm244F+78kLghRcin/awv+IrTcIWF hUpSs1Y91iQQ7KItirz5uwCPlwejSJDQJLIS+QtJHaXDXeV6NI0Uef1hP20+y8qydDiVkv6l IreXjTb7DvksRgJNvCkWtYnlS3mYvQ9NzS9PhyALWbXnH6sIJd2O9lKS1Mrfq+y0IXCP10eS FFGg+Av3IQeFatkJAyju0PPthyTqxSI4lZYuJVPknzgaeuJv/2NccrPvmeDg6Coe7ZIeQ8Yj t0ARxu2xytAkkLCel1Lz1WLmwLstV30g80nkgZf/wr+/BXJW/oIvRlonUkxv+IbBM3dX2OV8 AmRv1ySWPTP7AAMFB/9PQK/VtlNUJvg8GXj9ootzrteGfVZVVT4XBJkfwBcpC/XcPzldjv+3 HYudvpdNK3lLujXeA5fLOH+Z/G9WBc5pFVSMocI71I8bT8lIAzreg0WvkWg5V2WZsUMlnDL9 mpwIGFhlbM3gfDMs7MPMu8YQRFVdUvtSpaAs8OFfGQ0ia3LGZcjA6Ik2+xcqscEJzNH+qh8V m5jjp28yZgaqTaRbg3M/+MTbMpicpZuqF4rnB0AQD12/3BNWDR6bmh+EkYSMcEIpQmBM51qM EKYTQGybRCjpnKHGOxG0rfFY1085mBDZCH5Kx0cl0HVJuQKC+dV2ZY5AqjcKwAxpE75MLFkr wkkEGBECAAkFAlk3nEQCGwwACgkQoDSui/t3IH7nnwCfcJWUDUFKdCsBH/E5d+0ZnMQi+G0A nAuWpQkjM1ASeQwSHEeAWPgskBQL
- Cc: Jürgen Groß <jgross@xxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Delivery-date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:40:41 +0000
- List-id: Xen developer discussion <xen-devel.lists.xenproject.org>
On 18.08.2026 23:42, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Jürgen Groß, le mar. 18 août 2026 07:43:34 +0200, a ecrit:
>> On 17.08.26 18:37, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> Juergen Gross, le lun. 17 août 2026 10:24:02 +0200, a ecrit:
>>>> On 17.08.26 09:48, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>>>> Juergen Gross, le lun. 17 août 2026 09:18:41 +0200, a ecrit:
>>>>>> There is no user of libpci left in stubdoms.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Remove libpci from the stubdom build system.
>>>>>
>>>>> Wouldn't it be useful to keep this for anybody who would want to drive a
>>>>> PCI card from a stubdomain?
>>>>>
>>>>> I mean, in the zlib case, it's really a mere question of build & link,
>>>>> so we don't need to ship it, people can do it themselves easily like for
>>>>> any other library.
>>>>>
>>>>> But here there is actual porting work, that we'd better not lose but
>>>>> keep shipping.
>>>>
>>>> This is all still available via git.
>>>
>>> No, it is not really.
>>>
>>> I keep reading this argument, but people will not know that something
>>> exists in the git history, and will just assume that it does not exist
>>> and has to be written.
>>
>> What about adding a comment to the stubdom Makefile in a separate patch,
>> like:
>>
>> # pciutils support has been removed with commit <commit-id>, revert that
>> patch
>> # in case it is needed again.
>>
>> I think this would be preferable over unused and probably bit-rotten code in
>> the repository.
>
> I don't see why it would be bit-rotten, since the pciutils version in
> used is fixed,
Which is one of the problems with it. Why are we forcing people to use a long
outdated version?
Jan
> it's a library that has a quite stable API, and the pci
> xen interface is supposed to keep backward compatibility.
>
> Samuel
>
|
