Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] qapi: Restrict LostTickPolicy enum to machine code

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

+Laurent + qemu-block@

On 9/14/20 11:14 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> writes:
> 
>> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> 
> Unlike the other patches that move code out of misc.json, this one
> doesn't say "allows pulling less declarations/definitions to user-mode."
> Intentional?

TBH I don't remember as this is 6months old.

IIUC the "tick lost" feature is only meaningful when running
virtualized with a RTC profile, so this is pointless for
user-mode binaries and tools.