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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:20:43 +0200
From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add hotplug opt-out option for devices.
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:13:21PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 11/18/10 12:01, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> >On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:45:15AM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >>   Hi,
> >>
> >>This patch series adds a qdev flag which allows devices being tagged as
> >>not hotpluggable.  It also sets this flag for a number of devices.
> >>
> >Do we want to be able to mark device as not hot-unpluggable from command
> >like too? Something like this -device blabla,notunplug=no.
> 
> Hmm, dunno.  Do you have a example where this would be needed or useful?
> 
Dunno me too. Windows allows to eject any hot-unpluggable device to any
user and in the past we got requirement to disable this and had to build
two BIOSes one with cpu hot-plug support another without. So
hot-pluggability of device looks like management decision (along with
technical one if device can't be actually unplugged).

--
			Gleb.