Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH v4] virtio-i2c: add the device specification

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 09:51:17AM +0800, Jie Deng wrote:
> 
> On 2020/11/10 18:59, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > On 10/11/20 11:33, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > > Sorry I didn't reply last week, but I really would prefer if virtio-i2c
> > > > supported write-read transactions.
> > > 
> > > And I think an easier way is to allow multi-segment transactions
> > > probably using the stop flag.
> > 
> > You cannot always be sure that the host would support them (with the
> > exception of write+read transactions, which are pretty much universal),
> > so you would also need to describe what the host features are.
> > 
> > Paolo
> > 
> Then I will send v5 to support write+read transactions using Paolo's
> proposal.
> I think we may have a simple version merged first and then improve it
> according
> to the actual needs.
> 
> Thank you.

I frankly don't get it, you put read/write flags there even though they
are not needed, saying it's intended to mirror Linux, then don't want to
put STOP there even though this is exactly what Linux has ...

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MST