Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: warn when both legacy and modern modes are disabled

[Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 13:07:46 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 11:24:45 +0200
> Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 12 May 2016 11:45:58 +0200
> > Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:  
> > > Without presuming if we got there because of a user mistake or some
> > > more subtile bug in the tooling, it doesn't hurt to log somewhere that  
> 
> s/subtile/subtle/
> 

Frenglish stroke again :)

> > > the device won't be functional.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > ---  
> > 
> > Michael,
> > 
> > This patch still applies to your tree. Please nack if this is not worth
> > being upstreamed.
> > 
> > Cc'ing Connie for broader audience :)
> > 
> > Cheers.
> > 
> > --
> > Greg
> >   
> > >  hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c |    4 ++++
> > >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c
> > > index 0f634d2d776e..a74978cb5e83 100644
> > > --- a/hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c
> > > +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c
> > > @@ -1639,6 +1639,10 @@ static void virtio_pci_device_plugged(DeviceState *d, Error **errp)
> > >      uint32_t size;
> > >      VirtIODevice *vdev = virtio_bus_get_device(&proxy->bus);
> > > 
> > > +    if (!legacy && !modern) {
> > > +        error_report("Warning: device is unserviceable when both legacy and modern modes are disabled. At least one of the disable-modern or disable-legacy properties should be set to false.");
> > > +    }  
> 
> Do you maybe want to fail this at the realize stage already? A device
> that is neither legacy nor modern should not exist at all.
> 

Makes sense. I'll send a v2. Thanks !

> > > +
> > >      config = proxy->pci_dev.config;
> > >      if (proxy->class_code) {
> > >          pci_config_set_class(config, proxy->class_code);
> > > 
> > >   
> >   
>