Re: [libvirt] [PATCH V3 1/2] libxl: drop support for Xen < 4.6

On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 10:16 +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Mon, 2018-09-17 at 10:00 -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote: >> On 9/17/18 2:59 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: >>> Depending on how long it takes to get that fixed in Fedora, we >>> might want to temporarily reintroduce the fallback path... >> >> Ok. What is your estimate of "long" in this case? :-) By the end of the day? End >> of week? Before freeze for next release? > > I'd say we give the maintainer a few days to respond, and if > nothing happens by next Monday we just put the code back in. The maintainer has fixed the issue in Fedora 29+, but they're understandably not going to backport the change to earlier Fedora releases: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1629643#c2

So we're going to need the fallback code for ~6 more months. Would you mind posting a patch that reintroduces it along with a comment mentioning that we can drop it as soon as Fedora 28 goes out of support?