From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36065) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2zmw-0004jm-Qq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 06:32:51 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2zmt-0006ud-It for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 06:32:46 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:39107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z2zmt-0006uW-Dq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 11 Jun 2015 06:32:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:32:39 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20150611122843-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1433414083-9720-1-git-send-email-kraxel@redhat.com> <20150604125203-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <1434011172.27114.25.camel@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1434011172.27114.25.camel@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/33] virtio 1.0 patch series rebased List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: Cornelia Huck , qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 10:26:12AM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > Here's an incomplete todo for spec compliance: note that it does not > > have to block this patchset: > > - complete other devices besides net, balloon > > need to disable a bunch of features > > that 1.0 has deprecated > > So, what is the plan here? > > For legacy devices we keep the features, for backward compatibility > reasons. > > For modern devices we drop the deprecated features. > > What about transitional? Drop them too? Yes. > Implementation-wise we probably want a mask in VirtIODevice ... Exactly. > cheers, > Gerd >