Re: [Qemu-devel] [4261] Errors while registering ioports are not fatal (Glauber Costa).

["andrzej zaborowski" <balrogg@gmail.com>]

On 26/04/2008, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
> andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>
> > On 26/04/2008, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Saturday 26 April 2008, Andrzej Zaborowski wrote:
> > >  > Revision: 4261
> > >  >
> http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=4261
> > >  > Author:   balrog
> > >  > Date:     2008-04-26 16:04:29 +0000 (Sat, 26 Apr 2008)
> > >  >
> > >  > Log Message:
> > >  > -----------
> > >  > Errors while registering ioports are not fatal (Glauber Costa).
> > >
> > >  Why shouldn't they be fatal? How can this be anything other than a
> serious bug
> > >  in the device emulation?
> > >
> > >
> >
> > This change is perhaps not useful, it would be useful with hot-plugged
> > / proxied pci devices.  I think they are desirable features. But the
> > patchsets submitted turn out to depend on too much kvm code to ever
> > work alone so I might just as well revert :(
> >
> >
>
>  It's not at all kvm specific.  Even if QEMU never merged PCI hotplug
> (although I see no reason why not to), it's the right direction to move
> toward.

Right, what I mean is I missed the fact that there had been more
changes which didn't go into qemu on which Marcelo Tosatti's patches
depended and it seems like this included rather significant changes.

Regards