From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.0] ac97: don't override the pci subsystem id
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 17:15:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB7F62A.4030305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EB7F4C8.4080004@redhat.com>
On 11/07/2011 05:10 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > This is more of an edge case however, since we know that hardware tools
> > rely on PCI IDs.
>
> The ID is invalid, you can't do anything useful with it ...
>
> > For example our hypothetical ABI signature tool will
> > certainly include lspci like functionality and detect this as a change.
>
> ... except maybe recording it somewhere to notice when changes.
>
> So I guess your point is Windows guests might think they got a new sound
> card, record that has hardware change and may require re-activation
> because of that?
Yes. Or some hardware inventory tool we know nothing about, which was
constructed specifically in order to make our lives miserable.
--
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-07 15:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-07 11:00 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1.0] ac97: don't override the pci subsystem id Gerd Hoffmann
2011-11-07 14:17 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 14:33 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-11-07 14:39 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 14:42 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 14:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 14:50 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 14:53 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-07 15:00 ` Avi Kivity
2011-11-07 15:10 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-11-07 15:15 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
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