[virt-tools-list] [libosinfo] Add basic devices to RHEL OSes

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu Jun 9 13:31:39 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> To avoid having to duplicate the device data across every single RHEL 6.x
> update, we should put the devices in the older update (eg 6.0). For later
> upodates 6.1, 6.2, etc, they can inherit the devices from the original
> update 6.0. This should work in the general case, because minor updates
> will typically be using the exact same devices, possibly just adding a
> few newer ones. If we find we need to blacklist a device in a newer update
> we can invent a syntax for that later

  I was thinking of doing that but I wasn't sure if the devices are
supported by earlier minor versions of the OS. I'm mostly just copying
the information from python-virtinst as much as possible.


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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124




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