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From: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] virtio: fix modify drv_flags for specific
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Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 16:18:19 -0700
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On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 10:05:01AM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> Hello Tan,
> 
> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 8:08 PM, Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> wrote:
> > Issue: virtio's drv_flags are decided by devices types (modern vs legacy),
> > and which kernel driver is used, and the negotiated features (especially
> > VIRTIO_NET_STATUS) with backend, which makes it possible to multiple
> > virtio devices have different versions of drv_flags, but this variable
> > is currently shared by each virtio device.
> 
> The wording is a bit strange, maybe the sentence is a bit too long.

Agreed.

Besides that, it just described the fact that we are sharing one
flag for all virtio devices, but it didn't state what's wrong with
it, and what's the per-device flag for. From this point of view,
I don't think you are actually solving an "issue", as I don't see
one from your description.

> But the rest looks good to me.
> 
> Acked-by: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>

Thanks for the review.

	--yliu