> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xen-devel [mailto:xen-devel-boun...@lists.xen.org] On Behalf Of
> Paul Durrant
> Sent: 24 March 2017 20:24
> To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.coop...@citrix.com>; xen-
> de...@lists.xenproject.org
> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com>; Julien Grall
> <julien.gr...@arm.com>; Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools/libxenforeignmemory: add a call to
> restrict the handle
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Cooper
> > Sent: 24 March 2017 20:10
> > To: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com>; xen-
> de...@lists.xenproject.org
> > Cc: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com>; Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@citrix.com>;
> > Julien Grall <julien.gr...@arm.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] tools/libxenforeignmemory: add a call to
> > restrict the handle
> >
> > On 22/03/17 11:25, Paul Durrant wrote:
> > > diff --git a/tools/libs/foreignmemory/libxenforeignmemory.map
> > b/tools/libs/foreignmemory/libxenforeignmemory.map
> > > index df206b3..5c9806c 100644
> > > --- a/tools/libs/foreignmemory/libxenforeignmemory.map
> > > +++ b/tools/libs/foreignmemory/libxenforeignmemory.map
> > > @@ -4,5 +4,6 @@ VERS_1.0 {
> > >           xenforeignmemory_close;
> > >           xenforeignmemory_map;
> > >           xenforeignmemory_unmap;
> > > +         xenforeignmemory_restrict;
> > >   local: *; /* Do not expose anything by default */
> > >  };
> >
> > This isn't correct.
> >
> > New functions like this need to bump at least the SO minor version, like
> > c/s f1446de4ba
> >
> 
> Sorry, yes, I forgot these libraries are supposed to be stable now.
> 
> > Fixing this is a blocker to releasing 4.9
> >
> 
> I'll submit a patch on Monday.

Actually, on second thoughts, do we want to bump the version for all changes or 
just incompatible ones? I added a call here so it shouldn't break any older 
application compiling against this library.

  Paul

> 
> > Also, we should really get automatic ABI checking built into the release
> > process, to prevent mistakes like this from happening accidentally.
> >
> 
> Yes, definitely.
> 
>   Paul
> 
> > ~Andrew
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