From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36536) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzqCi-0004jZ-56 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:33:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzqCc-0006kG-Dr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:33:16 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:34891) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UzqCc-0006jw-5X for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:33:10 -0400 Message-ID: <51E80AAA.30001@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 17:32:58 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1374136063-24399-1-git-send-email-marcel.a@redhat.com> <1374136063-24399-2-git-send-email-marcel.a@redhat.com> <87ppugdjtb.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <1374158537.14214.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <51E80060.5020709@redhat.com> <87txjrzzgs.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <1374160984.14214.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1374160984.14214.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/2] qemu-help: Sort devices by logical functionality List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Marcel Apfelbaum Cc: Anthony Liguori , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, afaerber@suse.de Il 18/07/2013 17:23, Marcel Apfelbaum ha scritto: >>>> Antony, thanks for your review! >>>> The whole point was to find a way to differentiate them by >>>> functionality so they can be sorted... >>>> Is it possible that a multifunction pci card will be used >>>> for more then one category mentioned above? >>> >>> Yes, for example your laptop's GPU probably has an audio function too. >> >> Another example is a converged network adapter. It's a single device >> with an ethernet port but it exposes two physical functions--one NIC and >> one fibre channel device via FCoE. > I agree that these are different device types, but they have the same category: > "Network" I think fibre channel is usually considered Storage. Paolo