On 09/15/2011 11:38 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
On 2011-09-15 16:11, Anthony Liguori wrote:
An example is a NIC with nvram that stores a mac address. In QOM, the guest
could change the mac address, then a user could hot unplug the device, and then
hot plug the device into a different PCI slot. The path is now different but
the device name has not change.
One of the many paths is still "<unique-nic-name>/nvram", so nothing
changed.
Auto-generated names are not needed, just use paths. In the end a device
name is a path as well, one with only a single element.
The auto-generated name right now would be:
"<unique-nic-name>::nvram"
You are right that that is also a path. And I now think you are right that we
could just s|::|/|g and declare that names are paths.
The only problem with this is it introduces a canonical path format. That may
or may not be a bad thing..
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
