[libvirt PATCH v5 2/7] News: Add a PCI VPD parser

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:30:48PM +0300, Dmitrii Shcherbakov wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Shcherbakov <dmitrii.shcherbakov at canonical.com>
> ---
>  NEWS.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
> index fd20e50d18..a4178e505c 100644
> --- a/NEWS.rst
> +++ b/NEWS.rst
> @@ -29,6 +29,14 @@ v7.8.0 (unreleased)
>      active. This information can also be retrieved with the new virsh command
>      ``nodedev-info``.
>  
> +  * virpcivpd: Add a PCI VPD parser
> +
> +    A parser for the standard PCI/PCIe VPD ("I.3. VPD Definitions" in PCI 2.2+
> +    and an equivalent definition in "6.28.1 VPD Format" PCIe 4.0) was added
> +    along with relevant types to represent PCI VPD in memory. This
> +    functionality got added for Linux only at this point (kernels above
> +    v2.6.26 have support for exposing VPD via sysfs).
> +

I think this is likely overkill. From a user pov I think it is sufficient
to just have the last news item in this series that mentions the new VPD
features reported against node devices.


Regards,
Daniel
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