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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Assign the correct pci id range to virtio_pci
Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 11:23:32 +0930
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:53:25 pm Pantelis Koukousoulas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 3:44 AM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> > Would be good to at least include the "experiment range" in case people are
> > making third-party virtio modules and want to play around without replacing
> > virtio-{pci,*}.
> 
> I 'd be happy with a simple comment explaining the 0x103f (e.g.,
> /* Not yet using the full 0x1000 - 0x10ef to hedge our bets in case we
> broke the ABI.*/
> as explained above)

Thanks, I like your patch.

Where did this idea of "experimental" range come from, BTW?  I prefer your
module cmdline approach, as it discourages deployment with such numbers.

Thanks,
Rusty.