Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities]

Mark McLoughlin
2009-06-12T17:58:11Z

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 20:44 +0300, Blue Swirl wrote:

> If the device has different behavior or different properties from
> guest perspective compared to the old device, it should get a new
> device type so that you could specify in the device tree either the
> old device or the new one.

Yes, that works - it's analogous to a device (type, version) pair.

Cheers,
Mark.