From: "Ján Tomko" <jtomko@redhat.com>
To: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Cc: "Andrea Bolognani" <abologna@redhat.com>,
"Kevin Wolf" <kwolf@redhat.com>,
"Eduardo Habkost" <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
libvir-list@redhat.com, "Jason Wang" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
"Cornelia Huck" <cohuck@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Amit Shah" <amit@kernel.org>,
Reitz <mreitz@redhat.com>,
Max@angien.pipo.sk, "Caio Carrara" <ccarrara@redhat.com>,
Gonglei <arei.gonglei@huawei.com>,
"Laine Stump" <laine@redhat.com>,
"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"Cleber Rosa" <crosa@redhat.com>,
"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2019 09:30:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190306083032.GZ1252@lpt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190306074148.GA9131@angien.pipo.sk>
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On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 08:41:48AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 16:56:43 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>> On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 15:38 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> So I agree neither scenario is exactly perfect, but I still think
>> adding non-transitional alias devices would overall be more
>> user-friendly.
>
>I don't think it makes sense to add it at the qemu level. From libvirt's
>point of view users should be shielded from any qemu impl detail or
>inconsistency as libvirt is the 'user friendly'[1] layer. In qemu the
>devices would be the same and thus does not make sense to do that
>because it would be more confusing.
>
>You can argue that we should add the alias at the libvirt level though.
>
You can, but please don't.
Jano
>[1] Yes. I'm aware that statement is quite ironical.
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-05 19:57 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices Eduardo Habkost
2018-12-05 19:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 1/2] virtio: Helper for registering virtio device types Eduardo Habkost
2018-12-05 19:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 2/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices Eduardo Habkost
2018-12-07 12:03 ` Caio Carrara
2019-01-03 9:38 ` Thomas Huth
2019-01-03 10:14 ` Thomas Huth
2019-01-03 10:48 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-01-03 18:32 ` Eduardo Habkost
2019-01-04 4:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-01-04 8:27 ` Cornelia Huck
2018-12-05 21:42 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] " no-reply
2018-12-12 1:18 ` [Qemu-devel] " Eduardo Habkost
2018-12-12 1:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-05 12:09 ` Andrea Bolognani
2019-03-05 14:38 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2019-03-05 15:56 ` Andrea Bolognani
2019-03-06 7:41 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Peter Krempa
2019-03-06 8:30 ` Ján Tomko [this message]
2019-03-06 9:08 ` Andrea Bolognani
2019-03-06 9:10 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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