Discussion of the implementations of VIRTIO specification
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From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: virtio@lists.oasis-open.org, virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [virtio] [PATCH v3] conformance: clarify transitional/non-transitional
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:49:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190311174907.0b5a9127.cohuck@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190311160018.29995-1-mst@redhat.com>

On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 12:00:46 -0400
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> Clarify that:
> - non-transitional just satisfy 3 main clauses
> - transitional also has a legacy interface:
>   however note that it's not an optional component
>   *for transitional devices* so MAY is inappropriate
> - legacy device descriptions are non-normative.
>   In fact virtio 0.9 is non-normative as a whole
>   and always was by design: it was early days and
>   spec evolved to document bugs in implementations.
> 
> VIRTIO-167
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes from v1:
> 	address remaining comments by Cornelia
> Changes from v1:
> 	address comments by Cornelia
> 
>  conformance.tex | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-11 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-11 16:00 [virtio] [PATCH v3] conformance: clarify transitional/non-transitional Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-11 16:49 ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2019-03-12 15:00 ` [virtio] Re: [virtio-dev] " Halil Pasic
2019-03-12 16:04   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2019-03-12 16:35     ` Halil Pasic

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