linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 04/42] virtio: disable virtio 1.0 in transports

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Message-ID: <20141127120252.27021c54.cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:02:52 +0100
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	rusty@....ibm.com, nab@...ux-iscsi.org, pbonzini@...hat.com,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	linux390@...ibm.com, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>,
	Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>,
	Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Nikhil Rao <nikhil.rao@...el.com>,
	Siva Yerramreddy <yshivakrishna@...il.com>,
	lguest@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 04/42] virtio: disable virtio 1.0 in transports

On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 12:54:34 +0200
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:09:54AM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote:

> > The old s390 virtio transport in kvm_virtio.c is not part of virtio 1.0.
> 
> It might or might not be a good idea to add code in kvm_virtio.c
> blacklisting VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1, just in case there's a buggy device
> that sets it.
> As correct devices won't set it, I don't think we need to
> worry about it too much. We can make it a patch on top later
> if we want.
> 

I'd want to blacklist it, just to make sure nothing weird happens. I
don't want to spend effort on the old transport beyond that :)

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