From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MG8RK-0004bK-Os for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:25:18 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MG8RE-0004S7-Gk for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:25:16 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37071 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MG8RE-0004Rd-99 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:25:12 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:51152) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MG8RD-00017M-OB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:25:12 -0400 Message-ID: <4A36138C.4060306@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:25:32 +0300 From: Dor Laor MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add -no-virtio-balloon command-line option References: <1244661817-3293-1-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com> <4A300891.4060500@codemonkey.ws> <20090610193408.GE18045@blackpad> <4A30D748.8070507@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4A30D748.8070507@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: dlaor@redhat.com List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Gerd Hoffmann Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Gerd Hoffmann wrote: >> >> This new option may be used to disable the virtio-balloon device. >> > > ACK, looks good. > > And I can drop my lazy patch which just comments out virtio-balloon in > the code ;) Actually, I rather have the balloon disabled by default. It's like any other pci device which needs explicit command line specification. Why consume a pci slot if not implicitly required? > > cheers, > Gerd > > >