[libvirt] [PATCH] news: announce dropping of legacy Xen driver

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Tue Apr 10 08:17:39 UTC 2018


On Mon, 2018-04-09 at 15:00 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig at suse.com>
> ---
> 
> Not sure if removal of a feature is a feature, but this seems better
> placed under "New features" than "Improvements" or "Bug fixes".

It definitely counts as an improvement for those of us working on
the codebase ;)

I think it would make sense to have a "Removed features" section
in between "New features" and "Improvements", at least for this
release: the old Xen driver is not the only chunk of legacy code
being dropped...

>  docs/news.xml | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
> index 798ab6da4..106979cc1 100644
> --- a/docs/news.xml
> +++ b/docs/news.xml
> @@ -44,6 +44,16 @@
>            add this controller when traditional PCI devices are in use.
>          </description>
>        </change>
> +      <change>
> +        <summary>
> +          Xen: Drop the legacy xend-based driver
> +        </summary>
> +        <description>
> +          The xm/xend toolstack was deprecated in Xen 4.2 and removed
> +          from the Xen sources in the 4.5 development cycle. The libvirt
> +          driver based on xend is now removed from the libvirt sources.
> +        </description>
> +      </change>
>      </section>
>      <section title="Improvements">
>        <change>

With a "Removed features" section introduced and the entry moved
to it,

  Reviewed-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna at redhat.com>

but maybe don't push right away to give other people a chance to
chime in.

-- 
Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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