Re: [PATCH] virtio-iommu: Remove non transitional name

[Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>]

Hi Connie,

On 10/13/21 12:28 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13 2021, Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Remove non transitional name for virtio iommu. Like other
>> devices introduced after 1.0 spec, the virtio-iommu does
>> not need it.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
>> Reported-by: Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  hw/virtio/virtio-iommu-pci.c | 1 -
>>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/virtio/virtio-iommu-pci.c b/hw/virtio/virtio-iommu-pci.c
>> index 770c286be7..86fa4e6c28 100644
>> --- a/hw/virtio/virtio-iommu-pci.c
>> +++ b/hw/virtio/virtio-iommu-pci.c
>> @@ -100,7 +100,6 @@ static void virtio_iommu_pci_instance_init(Object *obj)
>>  static const VirtioPCIDeviceTypeInfo virtio_iommu_pci_info = {
>>      .base_name             = TYPE_VIRTIO_IOMMU_PCI,
>>      .generic_name          = "virtio-iommu-pci",
>> -    .non_transitional_name = "virtio-iommu-pci-non-transitional",
>>      .instance_size = sizeof(VirtIOIOMMUPCI),
>>      .instance_init = virtio_iommu_pci_instance_init,
>>      .class_init    = virtio_iommu_pci_class_init,
> No objections, but I'm a bit confused regarding base_name and
> generic_name here. Can you drop base_name, re-define
> TYPE_VIRTIO_IOMMU_PCI to "virtio-iommu-pci", and switch generic_name
> over to it? I think that would be more in line with other modern-only
> devices. AFAICS, the places using the #define should continue to work.
>
Sure, this all makes sense to me.

Thanks!

Eric