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

From: Cornelia Huck
Date: Thu Nov 27 2014 - 06:03:07 EST


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