linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio: Complete feature negotation before updating status

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Message-Id: <200806141413.09036.rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:13:08 +1000
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] virtio: Complete feature negotation before updating status

On Friday 13 June 2008 22:46:41 Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> lguest (in rusty's use-tun-ringfd patch) assumes that the
> guest has updated its feature bits before setting its status
> to VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK.
>
> That's pretty reasonable, so let's make it so.

Applied.  That's a bug, I'll send to Linus immediately (I screwed up in the 
feature changes which are new in this kernel).

Thanks for catching this,
Rusty.
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