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From: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH v0 1/3] pc-dimm: Add a field to
 PCDIMMDevice to mark device deletion state
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To: Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, tyreld@linux.vnet.ibm.com, nfont@linux.vnet.ibm.com, imammedo@redhat.com, david@gibson.dropbear.id.au

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:30:35PM -0500, Michael Roth wrote:
> Quoting Bharata B Rao (2015-08-19 01:56:09)
> > Add a field to PCDIMMDevice to note that the device has been marked
> > for removal. This will be used by PowerPC memory hotplug code to
> > honour the LMB removal requests of only those LMBs that belong to
> > PCDIMMDevice that has been marked for removal. This will be set from
> > -unplug() handler.
> 
> Why not track the delete pending state in the DRC? We have an
> awaiting_release flag there for similar purpose.

Ah yes, that should be possible. Will drop this patch in the
next iteration.

Regards,
Bharata.