Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v6 07/12] pcie/hotplug: introduce pushing attention button command

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 10/22/2010 09:38 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:35:47PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>    
>> "Michael S. Tsirkin"<mst@redhat.com>  writes:
>>
>>      
>>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 05:18:56PM +0900, Isaku Yamahata wrote:
>>>        
>>>> glue pcie_push_attention_button command.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata<yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
>>>>          
>>> So as a high level command, I think we need to
>>> think about how to tie this into pci_add/pci_del.
>>> Right?
>>>        
>> [...]
>>
>> Do we have consensus how our set of commands for hot plug should look
>> like?  We talked about it, but did we reach consensus?  If yes, did we
>> write it down somewhere?
>>      
> I think for simple things yes:
> - command to send hotplug notification to the guest
> - command to immediately add/remove the device
> - event to notify about guest ack
>    

Is it a guest ack?  I thought it was actually an eject that can be 
initiated without the notification being sent to the guest.

If so, polling doesn't really make much sense.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> - way to poll status: did guest ack last command?
>
> Existing ones will keep function:
> - send notification and when acked remove device
> - add device and send notification
> These are useful for human monitor but maybe not
> for management.
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