Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 12/22] vhost: rename VHOST_RESET_OWNER to VHOST_RESET_DEVICE

[Peter Maydell]

On 6 November 2015 at 01:34, Yuanhan Liu <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:42:15AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> On 3 October 2015 at 17:33, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 06:18:51PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On 24/09/2015 15:20, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> >> > From: Yuanhan Liu <address@hidden>
>> >> >
>> >> > Quote from Michael:
>> >> >
>> >> >     We really should rename VHOST_RESET_OWNER to VHOST_RESET_DEVICE.
>> >>
>> >> Where is the corresponding Linux patch for this?
>> >>
>> >> I would like to fetch the updated headers for KVM, and this is breaking
>> >> it.  In fact, a patch that just renames the #define (without providing
>> >> the old name for backwards compatibility) would be NACKed in upstream 
>> >> Linux.
>> >>
>> >> Paolo
>> >
>> > Right. And it turns out this whole approach is wrong.  I intend to
>> > revert this patch, and also drop the patch sending VHOST_RESET_OWNER on
>> > device stop.
>>
>> This revert doesn't seem to have happened, I think, which means
>> that this is one of the things which prevents a clean header-update
>> against kvm/next. Could we get this fixed for rc0, please?
>
> My bad. I will fix it next week. What's the deadline for rc0 then?

rc0 is 12th November (http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/2.5). You need
to also allow time for the patch to be reviewed and possibly taken
via somebody's tree.

thanks
-- PMM