[OASIS Issue Tracker] Issue Comment Edited: (VIRTIO-30) allow required features

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Michael Tsirkin edited comment on VIRTIO-30 at 9/12/13 4:10 PM:
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a similar issue if some features or device configuration
field values are mutually exclusive.
we would want a way for device to report to driver
that it's trying to create an inconsistent configuration.


      was (Author: mstsirkin):
    a similar issue if some features are mutually exclusive.
we would want a way for device to report to driver
that it's trying to create an inconsistent configuration.

  
> allow required features
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>
>                 Key: VIRTIO-30
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/VIRTIO-30
>             Project: OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>         Environment: guest driver
>            Reporter: Michael Tsirkin
>            Assignee: Michael Tsirkin
>
> in the past we sometimes wanted an ability to make driver gracefully fail early in initialization
> if it does not recognize/support a feature.
> One such example we are introducing right now is the new VERSION_1 feature.

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