From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio-spec: flexible configuration layout Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:13:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20111109101318.GB20612@redhat.com> References: <87wrbkvh3v.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20111101114542.GA13434@redhat.com> <1320150813.3847.24.camel@lappy> <20111101124223.GA14060@redhat.com> <8739e7uy87.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20111102233110.GA20289@redhat.com> <20111108214021.GA4538@redhat.com> <1320828366.31056.16.camel@lappy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1320828366.31056.16.camel@lappy> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: virtualization-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Sasha Levin Cc: Krishna Kumar , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Pawel Moll , Wang Sheng-Hui , Alexey Kardashevskiy , lkml - Kernel Mailing List , 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