From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfNYG-00024i-Ip for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 05:45:21 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfNYF-0001dr-M0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 05:45:20 -0400 Received: from mail-wm0-x230.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c09::230]:38533) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dfNYF-0001dT-DL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 05:45:19 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-x230.google.com with SMTP id m85so26557858wma.1 for ; Wed, 09 Aug 2017 02:45:19 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5e015c3e-7973-f397-cc1e-fee190292616@redhat.com> References: <20170809071718.17924-1-cohuck@redhat.com> <20170809102737.18436fb4.cohuck@redhat.com> <5e015c3e-7973-f397-cc1e-fee190292616@redhat.com> From: Peter Maydell Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 10:44:57 +0100 Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] 9pfs: fix dependencies List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thomas Huth Cc: Cornelia Huck , QEMU Developers , Christian Borntraeger , Alexander Graf , "Aneesh Kumar K.V" , Greg Kurz On 9 August 2017 at 10:07, Thomas Huth wrote: > While virtio-pci and virtio-ccw seem to require separate dedicated > devices (e.g. virtio-9p-pci and virtio-9p-ccw) for everything, You don't *have* to use the dedicated virtio-foo-pci device; if you like you can manually plug together the virtio-pci transport and the virtio-foo-device backend yourself. The 'fused' device is just for convenience and compatibility with existing command lines. There is no fused device for virtio-mmio because the board itself creates the transport devices so the user only needs to create the backends (which then auto-plug into the virtio bus). thanks -- PMM