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Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH] virtio-ccw: introduce revisions


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 01:02:57PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:34:30 +0300
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 05:19:05PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> > > Provide a new ccw that allows devices and drivers to operate on selected
> > > revision levels.
> > > 
> > > VIRTIO-42
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
> > 
> > So basically, CCW_CMD_SET_VIRTIO_REV re-implements the VIRTIO_1 feature
> > bit in a device specific manner.
> > Now that we have FEATURES_OK, this does not seem to be needed?
> 
> The idea was to implement something like a 'revision id', which we
> didn't have for ccw. It also allows for negotiating (the driver can try
> revisions until it finds one that the device accepts) and extra
> configuration specifics (the currently unused data field). As it needs
> to be done before any other channel commands, it also allows for early
> fencing.

So does not the new initialization sequence and the new
FEATURES_OK flag handle all that?
I just did a commit - could you take a look please?

If not and we need an extra hand-shake - shouldn't it be
generic and not transport specific?

-- 
MST


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