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

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On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 08:10:34AM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> On 03/28/2018 07:28 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:03:51AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 04:31:29PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
> > > > Currently the libxl driver claims support for Xen >= 4.4, but
> > > > Xen 4.4 and 4.5 are no longer supported upstream. Let's increase
> > > > the minimum supported version to 4.6.
> > > 
> > > Generally libvirt would keep supporting things even if upstream
> > > drops support, if some relevant distro still ships and supports
> > > it. RHEL doesn't ship libxl though, so just Q of whether these
> > > libxl versions are relevant to any Suse or Debian distros that
> > > are actively used.
> > 
> > BTW, if we're willing to drop old versions of Xen wrt the libxl
> > driver, shouldn't we first drop the legacy Xen driver which is
> > used with even older versions of Xen < 4.2 ?
> 
> Touche :-). I have a dusty patchset to do that too. Time to brush it off and
> nuke the old driver first.

Great, I look forward to seeing that, because it will simplify some work
I'm trying todo to cleanup the virDrvConnectOpen method impls.

Regards,
Daniel
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