Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:32:20 -0300
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 10:39:30AM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > So, what I'd propose is:
> > - virtio-*-pci-standard: compliant with the virtio standard 1.0 or
> >   later; no legacy fallback
> > - virtio-*-pci-transitional: compliant with the virtio standard 1.0 or
> >   later; fallback to legacy included, as specified by the standard
> > (- virtio-*-pci-legacy: legacy devices, should we need that for compat
> > reasons)
> > 
> > We could also use '-virtio-1' instead of '-standard', if we do a major
> > break with a 2.x standard (I don't see it yet). But having a new type
> > for 1.1 sounds wrong.  
> 
> That's true: adding a new type for 1.1 is probably going to be
> wrong.
> 
> But how can I make any promises about the existing device type
> being compatible with 1.1 (or 1.2, 1.3...), if the 1.1 (or 1.2,
> 1.3...) specification wasn't released yet?

I think the *goal* is to keep them compatible. We'll probably want to
switch to virtio-2 should we want to do an explicit break in the future.

> 
> Maybe using "-virtio-1" would be a good way to be clear we're
> talking about virtio-1.x without making any promises about 1.1,
> 1.2, 1.3, etc.

It would fit the way this is supposed to work, yes.