From: Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: kvm-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update virtio to latest ABI
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:26:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <479E104A.2040405@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479DFC3E.8020709-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> I'm worried about the ramp up to 2.6.25 causing confusion among users
>> as before that things will break left and right, if we don't provide
>> a tighter check.
>>
>
> Well, using the PCI revision ID isn't a bad idea. It wouldn't have
> helped this last problem because that was an ABI break in the network
> driver and we really can't indicate a ABI break in the PCI driver for
> any possibly virtio device.
Why not? we have one pci device per virtio device, and in the same way
the pci id is device-specific, the revision id can be device specific as
well. We just need a virtio revision field, and a pci-virtio binding
for that field.
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2008-01-24 20:00 [PATCH] Update virtio to latest ABI Anthony Liguori
[not found] ` <12012048063315-git-send-email-aliguori-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-27 7:18 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <479C3049.1010509-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-27 23:06 ` Anthony Liguori
[not found] ` <479D0E7B.2060400-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-28 10:49 ` Avi Kivity
[not found] ` <479DB34F.8080001-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-28 16:01 ` Anthony Liguori
[not found] ` <479DFC3E.8020709-r/Jw6+rmf7HQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-28 17:26 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
[not found] ` <479E104A.2040405-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
2008-01-28 18:28 ` Anthony Liguori
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