From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity 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 20:13:18 +0300 Message-ID: <4A36812E.3050909@redhat.com> References: <4A364381.401@redhat.com> <4A364401.6010500@codemonkey.ws> <4A3647FB.9010808@redhat.com> <4A364B53.9080007@codemonkey.ws> <4A364FE0.40204@redhat.com> <4A3651EB.3070204@codemonkey.ws> <4A36555A.4090303@redhat.com> <4A3659A0.3050108@codemonkey.ws> <20090615143737.GB14405@redhat.com> <4A3662BA.6030304@codemonkey.ws> <20090615150804.GH7233@redhat.com> <4A3664EE.30207@redhat.com> <1245083231.3222.104.camel@blaa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============5217256499067416666==" Cc: Carsten Otte , "Daniel P. Berrange" , kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Glauber Costa , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl , Christian Borntraeger , Paul Brook , Anthony Liguori To: Mark McLoughlin Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1245083231.3222.104.camel@blaa> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Mime-version: 1.0 Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============5217256499067416666== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------000201020409010800000406" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000201020409010800000406 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/15/2009 07:27 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Providing end users with the *option* to choose PCI slots sounds like a > fine feature request for any management app. > > Requiring all management apps to force end users to explicitly choose > PCI slots in order for slots to be stable is not so reasonable. > Think any installer's partitioning utility. It will provide a default placement and try to hide it from you. If you ask, it will let you place the partitions yourself. The management app is the end user's agent. When we push something there, we allow it to choose something, or push the decision further up to the user. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. --------------000201020409010800000406 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 06/15/2009 07:27 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:


Providing end users with the *option* to choose PCI slots sounds like a
fine feature request for any management app.

Requiring all management apps to force end users to explicitly choose
PCI slots in order for slots to be stable is not so reasonable.

Think any installer's partitioning utility. It will provide a default placement and try to hide it from you. If you ask, it will let you place the partitions yourself.

The management app is the end user's agent. When we push something there, we allow it to choose something, or push the decision further up to the user.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.

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