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

[Jim Fehlig]

On 03/28/2018 07:28 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 10:03:51AM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 04:31:29PM -0600, Jim Fehlig wrote:
>>> Currently the libxl driver claims support for Xen >= 4.4, but
>>> Xen 4.4 and 4.5 are no longer supported upstream. Let's increase
>>> the minimum supported version to 4.6.
>>
>> Generally libvirt would keep supporting things even if upstream
>> drops support, if some relevant distro still ships and supports
>> it. RHEL doesn't ship libxl though, so just Q of whether these
>> libxl versions are relevant to any Suse or Debian distros that
>> are actively used.
> 
> BTW, if we're willing to drop old versions of Xen wrt the libxl
> driver, shouldn't we first drop the legacy Xen driver which is
> used with even older versions of Xen < 4.2 ?

Touche :-). I have a dusty patchset to do that too. Time to brush it off and 
nuke the old driver first.

Regards,
Jim