Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 4/5] slirp: VMStatify socket level

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Samuel Thibault (address@hidden) wrote:
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert, on mar. 28 févr. 2017 16:54:46 +0000, wrote:
> > I'm thinking one way to do it without changing the version would
> > be to use the existing value for IPv4, and on reading allow any other
> > value for IPv6 (or just the ones we know about); that would make
> > it inwards migration compatible.
> 
> Right. I don't know if that's enough for QEMU requirements.

If you change the version number you break backwards migration anyway;
but doing what I suggested would keep backwards working in most cases.

Dave

> Samuel
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