netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio-net: inline header support

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Message-ID: <87bogj2j1b.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:41:12 +0930
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Lendacky <tahm@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, avi@...hat.com,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] virtio-net: inline header support

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com> writes:

> Il 03/10/2012 08:44, Rusty Russell ha scritto:
>> There's a reason I haven't done this.  I really, really dislike "my
>> implemention isn't broken" feature bits.  We could have an infinite
>> number of them, for each bug in each device.
>
> However, this bug affects (almost) all implementations and (almost) all
> devices.  It even makes sense to reserve a transport feature bit for it
> instead of a device feature bit.
>
> Paolo

Perhaps, but we have to fix the bugs first!

As I said, my torture patch broke qemu immediately.  Since noone has
leapt onto fixing that, I'll take a look now...

Cheers,
Rusty.
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