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From: Sascha Silbe <silbe@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] qdev-monitor: add missing aliases for virtio device classes
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 18:38:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k2lw1w83.fsf@oc4731375738.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160222130952.4be4efc1.cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>

Dear Conny,

Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> writes:

>> virtio-{blk,balloon,net,serial} are aliases for their actual,
>> architecture-dependent implementations (*-ccw on s390x, *-pci on other
>> architectures supporting virtio). This makes it a lot easier to craft
>> qemu invocations that work on all supported architectures. Complete
>> the set to cover all existing non-abstract virtio device classes.
[...]
> There's also virtio-vga but that one looks quite hardcoded around pci.

Yeah, it's not even called virtio-vga-pci but rather just virtio-vga, so
we can't do any virtio-foo → virtio-foo-{pci,ccw} alias magic for it.


[...]
> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>

Thanks for the reviews!

Sascha
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-22 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-18 21:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] add missing virtio aliases Sascha Silbe
2016-02-18 21:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/3] qdev-monitor: improve error message when alias device is unavailable Sascha Silbe
2016-02-22 11:54   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-02-18 21:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] qdev-monitor: sort alias table by typename Sascha Silbe
2016-02-22 12:00   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-02-18 21:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] qdev-monitor: add missing aliases for virtio device classes Sascha Silbe
2016-02-22 12:09   ` Cornelia Huck
2016-02-22 17:38     ` Sascha Silbe [this message]
2016-03-04 12:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/3] add missing virtio aliases Sascha Silbe
2016-03-04 13:01 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2016-03-04 14:54   ` Markus Armbruster
2016-03-04 17:02 ` Markus Armbruster

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