Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr-pci: change the default PCI bus naming

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 12:47:28PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 06/03/2014 04:11, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
> >Previously libvirt required the first/default PCI bus to have name "pci".
> >Since QEMU can support multiple buses now, libvirt wants "pci.0" now.
> >
> >This removes custom busname and lets QEMU make up default names.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>
> >---
> >
> >I tested this with:
> >  -netdev tap,id=id0,ifname=tapqemu-tap-00,script=ifup.sh,downscript=ifdown.sh \
> >  -device e1000,id=id1,netdev=id0,mac=C0:41:49:4b:00:00 \
> >  -device \
> >  spapr-pci-host-bridge,index=5,id=aikbus \
> >  -netdev tap,id=id2,ifname=tap-1,script=ifup.sh,downscript=ifdown.sh \
> >  -device rtl8139,id=id3,netdev=id2,bus=aikbus.0,mac=C0:41:49:4b:00:01 \
> >  -device spapr-pci-vfio-host-bridge,id=id4,index=10,iommu=4 \
> >
> >This creates a default PCI, an additional emulated PCI bus (named aikbus,
> >if I omit the name, it is pci.1 which is also fine) and VFIO bus (which is
> >not in upstream yet but still), this all works fine and I cannot see any flaw.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Andreas, are you taking this patch?

I'd like to see this change done across all machines, not just this
ppc one, so that libvirt can do 1 single version check and know that
the new naming applies for everything from that point.

Regards,
Daniel
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