"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> writes: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 04:43:07PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >> virtio 1.0 says device configuration is optional, but most drivers treat it >> as >> mandatory. Even if presented by device, guest bios might disable the BAR >> holding that configuration, so we can't assume it's there, but we also don't >> want to fail if not in case drivers can cope with it's absence - such as caif >> or rng. >> >> Add code to drivers to check presence of get callback and fail gracefully. > > Rusty, in case it's not clear: I'd like to hear > your opinion on these patches, since virtio pci modern > driver I'm now preparing for submission, depends on this.
Just to note for anyone following, that these are now in my virtio-next tree. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
