From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities] Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:24:54 -0500 Message-ID: <4A364BA6.7050708@codemonkey.ws> References: <20090610145540.GI19375@poweredge.glommer> <20090610150129.GC28601@redhat.com> <200906101624.30659.paul@codesourcery.com> <20090610174301.GC7416@shareable.org> <20090610182227.GN28601@redhat.com> <20090610192702.GH7416@shareable.org> <1244796209.16425.20.camel@blaa> <4A326C7E.3020309@codemonkey.ws> <1244822007.30522.68.camel@blaa> <4A327E87.6080005@codemonkey.ws> <1244825333.26769.20.camel@blaa> <4A34ADA9.80709@redhat.com> <1245056955.6891.33.camel@blaa> <4A36314A.8040206@redhat.com> <4A364316.5070402@codemonkey.ws> <4A3648BE.2050403@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , Jamie Lokier , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Carsten Otte , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa , Rusty Russell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl , Christian Borntraeger , Paul Brook To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com ([209.85.221.173]:49118 "EHLO mail-qy0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751943AbZFONYz (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:24:55 -0400 Received: by qyk3 with SMTP id 3so260800qyk.33 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:24:57 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A3648BE.2050403@redhat.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Avi Kivity wrote: > > Certainly preferable to -baseline. > >> This is pretty easy to maintain with config files. > > Let's not tie the two together. I mentioned it because it suggests a good transition. We at least have to think through how things map to the post-config file world regardless of whether that's a few months from now or a decade :-) Regards, Anthony Liguori