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[PATCH v8 0/9] Introduce device group and device management

From: Cornelia Huck <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2022 09:53:00 -0000

On Tue, Nov 22 2022, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 05:06:04PM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 20 2022, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > +List of supported commands MUST NOT change: after reporting a >> >> s/List/The list/ >> >> > +given command as supported through VIRTIO_ADMIN_CMD_LIST_QUERY >> > +device MUST NOT later report it as unsupported. >> >> s/device/the device/ >> >> Is that for multiple queries while the device is alive? Is the device >> allowed to report a different list of commands after it has been reset? >> And is it allowed to _add_ commands? > > I feel it's a bad idea to allow this to change even across resets, at > least until we have a usecase where it's neeed. Basically > same as with features. Will document. Ok.