Re: [virtio] [PATCH v2] transitional issues: add new IDs for all devices

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 05:13:41PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> non-transitional devices should have been able to simply update
> revision ID to make sure legacy drivers are not loaded.
> Unfortunately, mistakes were made:
> - we didn't stress that drivers must check revision ID,
>   and of course there's no easy way for drivers to
>   test this failure path,
>   so older versions of Windows drivers ignored revision
>   (latest vision matches revision correctly)
> - CCW lacks revision ID field
> 
> Both facts mean a non-transitional device would need
> a separate mechanism to prevent legacy drivers from
> loading.
> We aren't running out of device IDs yet, so
> let's use up some to resolve this.
> 
> I incremented all IDs by 0x100 intentionally -
> for the PCI bindings, this should help remind people they can't
> just stick the Subsystem ID into the low byte of the Device ID.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes from v1:
> 	drop an unrelated chunk erroneously inserted here
> 
>  virtio-v1.0-wd01-part1-specification.txt | 74 +++++++++++++++++++-------------
>  1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>