[libvirt PATCH] libxl: Fix build with recent Xen that introduces new disk backend type

Anthony PERARD anthony.perard at citrix.com
Tue Aug 2 13:20:40 UTC 2022


On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 06:04:38PM +0100, Julien Grall wrote:
> On 01/08/2022 11:08, Michal Prívozník wrote:
> > BTW: every other package that does switch() over libxl_disk_backend enum
> > will need this fix.
> 
> Indeed. From my understanding, there is an expectation that tools built on
> top of libxl may need some update to work on the latest Xen. I will let
> Anthony (one of the tools maintainers to confirm).

Actually, if an application defines LIBXL_API_VERSION, like libvirt
does, we expect the application to still build against the latest
version of libxl. But I don't think that should prevent us from adding
new enum values.

Cheers,

-- 
Anthony PERARD



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