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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:24:41 +0000
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] virtio block device and sysfs
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To: john cooper <john.cooper@redhat.com>
Cc: Marc Haber <mh+qemu-devel@zugschlus.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

john cooper wrote:
> All that said, I like the alternate choice of adding a
> special virtio request far better.  It is actually simpler
> (and more maintainable IMO) than going through the
> gyrations of stuffing the S/N data through PCI config
> space.

And it needn't have a 20 character limit.

-- Jamie