From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Avi Kivity Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities] Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:21:30 +0300 Message-ID: <4A36912A.8090900@redhat.com> References: <1244821292.30522.56.camel@blaa> <4A327E4A.7010300@codemonkey.ws> <1244825303.26769.19.camel@blaa> <20090614095016.GA7560@redhat.com> <1245056916.6891.31.camel@blaa> <4A3613EC.6030608@redhat.com> <20090615103249.GB6351@redhat.com> <4A363012.8050409@redhat.com> <20090615114858.GG6351@redhat.com> <4A3636FA.1040609@redhat.com> <20090615124101.GH6351@redhat.com> <4A364381.401@redhat.com> <4A364401.6010500@codemonkey.ws> <4A3647FB.9010808@redhat.com> <4A364B53.9080007@codemonkey.ws> <4A364FE0.40204@redhat.com> <4A3651EB.3070204@codemonkey.ws> <4A36555A.4090303@redhat.com> <4A3659A0.3050108@codemonkey.ws> <4A366348.1030202@redhat.com> <1245083229.3222.103.camel@blaa> <4A368F12.2090504@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Mark McLoughlin , dlaor@redhat.com, Carsten Otte , Rusty Russell , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl , Christian Borntraeger , Paul Brook To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:46623 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754474AbZFOSYA (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:24:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A368F12.2090504@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/15/2009 09:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > 2) Whenever the default machine type changes in a guest-visible way, > introduce a new machine type s/whenever/qemu stable release/ > - Use explicit versions in name: pc-v1, pc-v2 pc-qemu-0.10? This is similar to a hardware vendor's model number (though they tend to change components without changing model numbers, though naughty vendors) > or use more descriptive names pc-with-usb > - Easily transitions to device config files Combinatorial explosion. Just use -usb. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGGqi-0000Q3-HQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:24:04 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGGqd-0000Fb-ON for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:24:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55178 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGGqd-0000Ei-CR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:23:59 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:44468) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGGqd-0001SH-0g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:23:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4A36912A.8090900@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:21:30 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities] References: <1244821292.30522.56.camel@blaa> <4A327E4A.7010300@codemonkey.ws> <1244825303.26769.19.camel@blaa> <20090614095016.GA7560@redhat.com> <1245056916.6891.31.camel@blaa> <4A3613EC.6030608@redhat.com> <20090615103249.GB6351@redhat.com> <4A363012.8050409@redhat.com> <20090615114858.GG6351@redhat.com> <4A3636FA.1040609@redhat.com> <20090615124101.GH6351@redhat.com> <4A364381.401@redhat.com> <4A364401.6010500@codemonkey.ws> <4A3647FB.9010808@redhat.com> <4A364B53.9080007@codemonkey.ws> <4A364FE0.40204@redhat.com> <4A3651EB.3070204@codemonkey.ws> <4A36555A.4090303@redhat.com> <4A3659A0.3050108@codemonkey.ws> <4A366348.1030202@redhat.com> <1245083229.3222.103.camel@blaa> <4A368F12.2090504@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4A368F12.2090504@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Mark McLoughlin , dlaor@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Carsten Otte , Glauber Costa , Rusty Russell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl , Christian Borntraeger , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Paul Brook On 06/15/2009 09:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > 2) Whenever the default machine type changes in a guest-visible way, > introduce a new machine type s/whenever/qemu stable release/ > - Use explicit versions in name: pc-v1, pc-v2 pc-qemu-0.10? This is similar to a hardware vendor's model number (though they tend to change components without changing model numbers, though naughty vendors) > or use more descriptive names pc-with-usb > - Easily transitions to device config files Combinatorial explosion. Just use -usb. -- I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this signature is too narrow to contain.