From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.a@redhat.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, afaerber@suse.de
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] qemu-help: Sort devices by logical functionality
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:32:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51E80AAA.30001@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1374160984.14214.23.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Il 18/07/2013 17:23, Marcel Apfelbaum ha scritto:
>>>> Antony, thanks for your review!
>>>> The whole point was to find a way to differentiate them by
>>>> functionality so they can be sorted...
>>>> Is it possible that a multifunction pci card will be used
>>>> for more then one category mentioned above?
>>>
>>> Yes, for example your laptop's GPU probably has an audio function too.
>>
>> Another example is a converged network adapter. It's a single device
>> with an ethernet port but it exposes two physical functions--one NIC and
>> one fibre channel device via FCoE.
> I agree that these are different device types, but they have the same category:
> "Network"
I think fibre channel is usually considered Storage.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-18 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-18 8:27 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] qemu-help: improve -device command line help Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 8:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] qemu-help: Sort devices by logical functionality Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 14:12 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-18 14:28 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-18 14:42 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 14:49 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-18 14:58 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-07-18 15:23 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 15:32 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-07-21 8:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-21 13:57 ` Ronen Hod
2013-07-18 8:27 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 2/2] devices: Associate devices to their logical category Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 13:56 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/2] qemu-help: improve -device command line help Paolo Bonzini
2013-07-18 14:02 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 15:04 ` Eric Blake
2013-07-21 12:09 ` Andreas Färber
2013-07-21 12:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-29 20:24 ` Anthony Liguori
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-07-18 9:06 Marcel Apfelbaum
2013-07-18 9:06 ` [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] qemu-help: Sort devices by logical functionality Marcel Apfelbaum
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