Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] add "info ioapic" monitor command

[Anthony Liguori]

On 12/31/2009 09:33 AM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 08:15:29AM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > On 12/30/2009 06:16 PM, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > It helps debug problems and it is not intrusive. Since 0.12 will be used
> > > for a long time I want to add it there for convenience.
> >
> > stable is for bug fixes only.
> This is to close minded. Not able to debug hard to reproduce problems when they 
> appear
> at the environment you can't replicate is a bug.


Every feature is important to someone and there is at least someone who 
wants just about every feature backported to stable.

Looking at this patch, it adds a new monitor command which potentially 
means that the QMP protocol is changing (as there is now a new command). 
 This is definitely not something we want to do in stable.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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>                         Gleb.