Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1162153AbXECQAx (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 12:00:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1162156AbXECQAx (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 12:00:53 -0400 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:48132 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162153AbXECQAv (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 May 2007 12:00:51 -0400 Message-ID: <463A0730.8070007@goop.org> Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 09:00:48 -0700 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerd Hoffmann CC: Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , netdev , Herbert Xu , Keir Fraser Subject: Re: netfront for review References: <4637D672.5030706@goop.org> <1178077033.28659.173.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4638EAC0.7020107@goop.org> <46399057.4000409@redhat.com> <20070503151756.GA29629@infradead.org> <463A01F7.90500@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <463A01F7.90500@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 706 Lines: 16 Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Drawback is that the guest kernel wouldn't work with older xen > versions (dom0 netback driver to be exact) any more. Probably > wouldn't be a showstopper though, given that xen 3.0.3 probably is > almost one year out by the time 2.6.22 will be released ... I don't think we've decided how backwards-compatible the pv_ops guest should be. I've been working on the basis "as much as possible", so long as it isn't a large burden. J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/