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From: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-net: add feature bit for any header s/g
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:54:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51DEB8FA.8080109@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130711134101.GA15676@redhat.com>

On 07/11/13 15:41, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> So we'll add a way for users to shoot themselves in the foot
> by setting a flag incorrectly. Point being?

Point taken. The flag name being global / universal relates to the
concept, not support level. Exposing it in any device enables the user
to set the flag, which in turn enables the guest to negotiate it, and to
create descriptor chains that qemu doesn't recognize.

Thanks
Laszlo

      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-11 13:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-11 13:15 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-net: add feature bit for any header s/g Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-11 13:39 ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-07-11 13:41   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-07-11 13:54     ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]

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