Re: KVM call agenda for tuesday 31

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 08:12:29AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/31/2012 07:15 AM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >Am 31.01.2012 00:53, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> >>On 01/30/2012 05:41 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> >>>Am 30.01.2012 19:55, schrieb Juan Quintela:
> >>>>Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering.
> >
> >>>VMState:
> >>>Anthony specifically said that VMState were not affected by QOM and that
> >>>patches should not be deferred until the merge. Yet there's no review
> >>>and/or decision-making for a month now. Ping^2 for AHCI+SDHC.
> >>
> >>Do you have pointers (to pending VMState patches)?
> >
> >http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/137732/ (PATCH v4)
> >
> >It's basically about how to deal with variable-sized arrays. (Alex
> >mentioned it on one call around November.) I found ways to deal with
> >subsets of arrays embedded within the struct and variable-sized list of
> >pointers to structs but no solution for a malloc()'ed array of structs.
> >Maybe I'm just too stupid to see. Anyway, no one commented since Xmas.
> 
> /me puts on his flame proof suit
> 
> Don't use VMState.  Just open code a save/restore function.  VMState
> is too limited in how it handles complex data structures.
> 
> I really believe the only long term solution we're going to get to
> here is something that uses a builder interface (like Visitors).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori

So the TPM patches started implementing a visitor interface
for BER, they are still blocked, right?

> >
> >Igor posted (and refined for v2) a patch with a callback-based approach
> >that I find promising. From my view, unofficially Juan is the VMState
> >guy, he's been cc'ed. Are we lacking an official maintainer that cares?
> >Or is Juan the official, undocumented maintainer but simply busy?
> >
> >SUSE's interest is making AHCI migratable, and my VMState workaround for
> >that is simply ugly:
> >
> >http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/133066/ (RFC)
> >
> >Therefore I'm waiting for some resolution.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Andreas
> >
> 
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