From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit to virtio_net Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:48:58 +0300 Message-ID: <20180620224535-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20180614120231.0a72bd5f.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180615134815.6613620e.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180619125453.2d2dfb2d.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180619233001-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180620115359.1a3bf6fb.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180620170904-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180620180619.6b4ee52d.cohuck@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Siwei Liu , "Samudrala, Sridhar" , Alexander Duyck , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, aaron.f.brown@intel.com, Jiri Pirko , Jakub Kicinski , Netdev , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, Joao Martins , Venu Busireddy , vijay.balakrishna@oracle.com To: Cornelia Huck Return-path: Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180620180619.6b4ee52d.cohuck@redhat.com> List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > In any case, I'm not sure anymore why we'd want the extra uuid. It's mostly so we can have e.g. multiple devices with same MAC (which some people seem to want in order to then use then with different containers). But it is also handy for when you assign a PF, since then you can't set the MAC. -- MST