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 > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
