Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] tests: Enable the drive_del test also on s390x

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 15:54:38 +0200
Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 17.08.2017 11:46, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> > On 17.08.2017 10:53, Cornelia Huck wrote:  
> >> On Thu, 17 Aug 2017 08:25:10 +0200
> >> Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>  
> >>> By using the "virtio-xxx" device name aliases instead of the
> >>> "virtio-xxx-pci" names, we can use this test on s390x, too,
> >>> to check that adding and deleting also works fine with the
> >>> virtio-ccw bus.  
> >>
> >> I don't think we should leak the aliasing stuff into tests, but rather
> >> specify the transport on a per-architecture basis explicitly. (We might
> >> want to test virtio-pci on s390x in the future as well -- in addition
> >> to virtio-ccw, not replacing it.)  
> > 
> > I also remember that using virtio aliases should be avoided (e.g. we are
> > not supposed to introduce new ones)  
> 
> Hmm, maybe the right way is to use virtio-xxx-device and hook it up to
> the preferred virtio bus of the current architecture? ... I'll ponder
> about that a little bit ...

What about defining a per-arch default virtio transport and pointing to
that? This still allows us to explicitly test virtio-pci on s390x later.

> 
> >>
> >> Also, the same question as for the previous patch: Is this supposed to
> >> test virtio explicitly, or do we just want a reasonable device?  
> 
> I think this just needs a reasonable device - but since we've got the
> same problem with the virtio tests later in this series again, it's
> maybe best to fix this here in the same way, I guess.

Yes. virtio will probably fill the 'reasonable device' place quite
well, in any case.