[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] rtl8139: IO memory is not part of vmstate

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 12/15/2010 08:04 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
This assuming upstream developers do not care about downstreams.
To give a chance for downstream to cherry-pick changes, upstream
should use subsections instead of version ids too.

Then version ids should be deprecated altogether.  Nothing against it, 
but I never heard about this plan.

Paolo