[libvirt] [PATCH V3 1/2] libxl: drop support for Xen < 4.6

[Jim Fehlig]

On 9/19/18 2:09 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 10:16 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>> On Mon, 2018-09-17 at 10:00 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>>> On 9/17/18 2:59 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>>>> Depending on how long it takes to get that fixed in Fedora, we
>>>> might want to temporarily reintroduce the fallback path...
>>>
>>> Ok. What is your estimate of "long" in this case? :-) By the end of the day? End
>>> of week? Before freeze for next release?
>>
>> I'd say we give the maintainer a few days to respond, and if
>> nothing happens by next Monday we just put the code back in.
> 
> The maintainer has fixed the issue in Fedora 29+, but they're
> understandably not going to backport the change to earlier Fedora
> releases:
> 
>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1629643#c2

Yep, saw that.

> So we're going to need the fallback code for ~6 more months.
> 
> Would you mind posting a patch that reintroduces it along with a
> comment mentioning that we can drop it as soon as Fedora 28 goes
> out of support?

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-September/msg00937.html

Regards,
Jim