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From: Klaus Jensen <its@irrelevant.dk>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
Cc: Niklas Cassel <niklas.cassel@wdc.com>,
	kbusch@kernel.org, qemu-block@nongnu.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw/nvme: fix example serial in documentation
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:31:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yrr0nrBdh6Qz4c/E@apples> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YrrzcdBRJ2pe2bcb@redhat.com>

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On Jun 28 13:26, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 02:39:57PM +0200, Niklas Cassel via wrote:
> > The serial prop on the controller is actually describing the nvme
> > subsystem serial, which has to be identical for all controllers within
> > the same nvme subsystem.
> 
> Given this description...
> 
> >  
> >     -device nvme-subsys,id=nvme-subsys-0,nqn=subsys0
> 
> ...I'm wondering why 'serial' isn't a property of this device..
> 
> > -   -device nvme,serial=a,subsys=nvme-subsys-0
> > -   -device nvme,serial=b,subsys=nvme-subsys-0
> > +   -device nvme,serial=deadbeef,subsys=nvme-subsys-0
> > +   -device nvme,serial=deadbeef,subsys=nvme-subsys-0
> 
> ..rather than requiring it to be redundantly set to the same value here ?
> 

-device nvme can be used without a subsystem device, and in that case
the serial must be set. However, you are right that we could not require
it if set on the subsystem device.

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-28 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-27 12:39 [PATCH] hw/nvme: fix example serial in documentation Niklas Cassel via
2022-06-27 17:11 ` Klaus Jensen
2022-06-28 12:26 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-06-28 12:31   ` Klaus Jensen [this message]

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