Re: [PATCH] Update virtio to latest ABI

Avi Kivity
2008-01-28T17:26:34Z

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> I'm worried about the ramp up to 2.6.25 causing confusion among users
>> as before that things will break left and right, if we don't provide
>> a tighter check.
>>
>
> Well, using the PCI revision ID isn't a bad idea. It wouldn't have
> helped this last problem because that was an ABI break in the network
> driver and we really can't indicate a ABI break in the PCI driver for
> any possibly virtio device.

Why not? we have one pci device per virtio device, and in the same way
the pci id is device-specific, the revision id can be device specific as
well. We just need a virtio revision field, and a pci-virtio binding
for that field.

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