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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:42:50 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, "quintela@redhat.com" <quintela@redhat.com>

On 03/23/2011 11:36 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
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> This is true for incompatible devices, but not for those that are
> perfectly exchangeable (like in-kernel vs. user-space irqchip).

I view this as the exception that proves the rule.

We should handle cases like this as very special cases.  I've found 
almost close to a dozen cases where we've got devices with conflicting 
names that aren't compatible and so far, none that truly are.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Jan
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