From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mathiasen@gmail.com
Subject: Re: A set of "standard" virtual devices?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 13:33:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46116898.5050701@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adaslbiecxg.fsf@cisco.com>
Roland Dreier wrote:
>
> > Obviously, anyone who adheres to the published interface can use one
> > of these VID:DIDs -- as far as I'm concerned, even hardware vendors;
> > we'll use the SID to distinguish between implementations.
>
> I think for this to work, some attempt at a conformance testing
> program is required...
>
How would you propose one goes about that? It seems to me the only
plausible thing is "does it work with the unmodified driver included in
the Linux kernel?" What else can one realistically do?
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-02 20:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-02 20:18 A set of "standard" virtual devices? H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-02 20:31 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-02 20:33 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-04-02 21:49 ` Roland Dreier
2007-04-02 20:56 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-02 21:12 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-02 21:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-02 21:36 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-02 21:42 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-02 21:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-04-02 22:04 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-02 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-02 22:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-04-02 22:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 9:41 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 10:41 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-03 12:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 13:39 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-03 14:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 16:07 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-03 8:29 ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-04-03 8:30 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-03 9:17 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-03 9:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-03 10:51 ` Cornelia Huck
2007-04-03 15:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-04-03 17:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 19:07 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-03 19:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 19:55 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-03 20:03 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 21:00 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-03 21:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 21:51 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 22:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 22:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-04 0:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-04 13:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-04 15:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-03 20:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
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