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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] New virtio bus driver
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:17:56 +1000
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On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:49 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> At the very least, we need an interrupt for device hotplug.  That same
> interrupt can be used to notify the guest about configuration changes
> within a device ("rescan the virtbus and all who sail in her").

Avi, this is overdesign; let's not try to boil the ocean or virtbus
might sink beneath the waves and we'll be down the drain without a
paddle.

Rusty.