[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

[Ján Tomko]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 08:41:48AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
>On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 16:56:43 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>> On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 15:38 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>> So I agree neither scenario is exactly perfect, but I still think
>> adding non-transitional alias devices would overall be more
>> user-friendly.
>
>I don't think it makes sense to add it at the qemu level. From libvirt's
>point of view users should be shielded from any qemu impl detail or
>inconsistency as libvirt is the 'user friendly'[1] layer. In qemu the
>devices would be the same and thus does not make sense to do that
>because it would be more confusing.
>
>You can argue that we should add the alias at the libvirt level though.
>

You can, but please don't.

Jano

>[1] Yes. I'm aware that statement is quite ironical.



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