> > The usual old fix was to not even compile them in. Why are they in > > the alias list in the s390 build now? > > Because the alias list is in target-independent code. > > The old fix was brittle anyway, it dependent on the fact that > virtio-blk-pci was not part of libhw. A similar trick broke for > cirrus-vga when it became part of libhw. > > Christian fix is correct.
Uhm, Christian fix would have the same problem actually if virtio-*-pci were to be moved in libhw. IIRC I proposed the same change on review and Anthony nacked it on these grounds. You could move the alias list to target-dependent code, though. Paolo
