Re: Virtio OASIS spec updates resubmission.

[Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:34:18PM +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> Hi Amos, Dmitry, Paolo,
> 
>         You might have heard that we've started an OASIS Technical
> Committee to produce a virtio 1.0 spec.  We based it on the then-current
> 0.9.5 spec, but you've all contributed since then.
> 
> To keep the IP issue clean, I'd really like you to join the
> virtio-comment mailing list, and mail your changes there.  Just sending
> me the git diff is fine, I'll translate it to text.

Registered.

I'm not clear here, do we need to send all future changes to
'virtio-comment' maillist?
or re-send changes after 0.9.5 to the list? why don't you do
a simple cherry-pick? :)

> 
>         https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=virtio 
> 
> Of course, you're welcome to join the TC as well if you want, or lurk on
> the mailing list and follow the fun :)  We'll also be sending out a
> proper draft to all the usual mailing lists once we've got something.

Interest, I'd like to join in the TC.
 
> Below are the git commits I'm talking about...
> 
> Sorry for the hassle,
> Rusty.

> commit 3c600996f641614d3720c94dd52155aaaba670fa
> Author: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
> Date:   Wed Jan 9 15:55:23 2013 +0800
> 
>     virtio-spec: fix two typos
>     
>     VIRTIO_NET_F_VTRL_VQ -> VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ
>     VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MQ is defined to 4 in kernel code
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
>     Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
> 
> commit f058954d131e3dc73058778ad23b241a235ae8e1
> Author: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
> Date:   Fri Jan 18 19:05:41 2013 +0800
> 
>     virtio-spec: set mac address by a new vq command
>     
>     Virtio-net driver currently programs MAC address byte by byte,
>     this means that we have an intermediate step where mac is wrong.
>     This patch introduced a new control command to set MAC address
>     in one time, and added a new feature flag VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC_ADDR
>     for this feature.
>     
>     "mac" field will be set to read-only when VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR
>      is acked.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

-- 
			Amos.