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Diffstat (limited to 'docs/migration.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/migration.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/docs/migration.txt b/docs/migration.txt index 0e0a1d44da..fe1f2bb738 100644 --- a/docs/migration.txt +++ b/docs/migration.txt @@ -139,7 +139,6 @@ static const VMStateDescription vmstate_kbd = { .name = "pckbd", .version_id = 3, .minimum_version_id = 3, - .minimum_version_id_old = 3, .fields = (VMStateField []) { VMSTATE_UINT8(write_cmd, KBDState), VMSTATE_UINT8(status, KBDState), @@ -168,12 +167,13 @@ You can see that there are several version fields: - minimum_version_id: the minimum version_id that VMState is able to understand for that device. - minimum_version_id_old: For devices that were not able to port to vmstate, we can - assign a function that knows how to read this old state. + assign a function that knows how to read this old state. This field is + ignored if there is no load_state_old handler. So, VMState is able to read versions from minimum_version_id to -version_id. And the function load_state_old() is able to load state -from minimum_version_id_old to minimum_version_id. This function is -deprecated and will be removed when no more users are left. +version_id. And the function load_state_old() (if present) is able to +load state from minimum_version_id_old to minimum_version_id. This +function is deprecated and will be removed when no more users are left. === Massaging functions === @@ -255,7 +255,6 @@ const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_drive_pio_state = { .name = "ide_drive/pio_state", .version_id = 1, .minimum_version_id = 1, - .minimum_version_id_old = 1, .pre_save = ide_drive_pio_pre_save, .post_load = ide_drive_pio_post_load, .fields = (VMStateField []) { @@ -275,7 +274,6 @@ const VMStateDescription vmstate_ide_drive = { .name = "ide_drive", .version_id = 3, .minimum_version_id = 0, - .minimum_version_id_old = 0, .post_load = ide_drive_post_load, .fields = (VMStateField []) { .... several fields .... |