Il 15/10/2013 16:54, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto: > > > Seemed cleaner not to. > > > > It certainly would be if we had a self-descriptive migration stream format. > > > > However, what we have is "send bytes, parse them on the destination, > > hope the format matches". Hence, anything that makes the format less > > declarative adds to the complication and complicates debugging. This is > > the same reason why I prefer a subsection for the new hotplug stuff---it > > makes the format more declarative and self-descriptive. > > I understand for the subsection but why is removing > useless bytes from there making it less descriptive?
Because the same version can have multiple formats depending on a datum that is not part of the migration stream. Paolo
