Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito: introduce methods of fixing device features

[Rusty Russell]

Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Buggy host may advertised buggy host features (a usual case is that host
> advertise a feature whose dependencies were missed). In this case, driver
> should detect and disable the buggy features by itself.

Sorry, I've been focussing elsewhere.

I would really prefer that drivers offer a "feature_depends" table,
which can indicate that feature A depends on feature B, and have the
core iterate, complain and fixup as necessary.

Is that expressive enough, or do we need more?

Thanks,
Rusty.
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