From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
virtualization <virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] New virtio bus driver
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:06:04 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <469321CC.3060805@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1184030276.6005.412.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Rusty Russell wrote:
> 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.
>
Well, I guess automatic device hotplug is a bit esoteric. We can start
without it and only implement it if there are mass demonstrations in its
favor. Just as long as we don't commit to anything in the ABIs.
--
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-10 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-06 12:42 [RFC 0/4] Using a generic bus_type for virtio arnd
2007-07-06 12:42 ` [RFC 1/4] New virtio bus driver arnd
2007-07-08 9:59 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-08 15:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-07-08 15:48 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-08 20:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-07-08 23:42 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-09 6:49 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-09 11:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-07-09 11:41 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-09 11:38 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-07-09 12:09 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-09 14:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-07-09 14:56 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-09 16:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-07-10 1:53 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-10 7:56 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-10 1:17 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-10 6:06 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2007-07-06 12:42 ` [RFC 2/4] Convert virtio_net to new virtio bus arnd
2007-07-06 12:42 ` [RFC 3/4] Convert virtio_blk " arnd
2007-07-06 12:42 ` [RFC 4/4] Example virtio host implementation, using chardev arnd
2007-07-08 2:15 ` [RFC 0/4] Using a generic bus_type for virtio Rusty Russell
2007-07-08 9:45 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-08 15:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-07-08 9:42 ` Avi Kivity
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