From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: add link status handling
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:23:41 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812101023.42365.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493EE3DE.7080702@codemonkey.ws>
On Wednesday 10 December 2008 08:02:14 Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > Allow the host to inform us that the link is down by adding
> > a VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS which indicates that device status is
> > available in virtio_net config.
> >
> > This is currently useful for simulating link down conditions
> > (e.g. using proposed qemu 'set_link' monitor command) but
> > would also be needed if we were to support device assignment
> > via virtio.
>
> It would be nice if the virtio-net card wrote some acknowledgement that
> it has received the link status down/up events.
How about of every status change event? ie. a generic virtio_pci solution?
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 23:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 10:19 [PATCH] virtio_net: add link status handling Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-09 21:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 23:53 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2008-12-10 3:11 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-10 18:34 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-12 8:04 ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-07 18:18 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-01-09 11:51 ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-09 23:56 ` Rusty Russell
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