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Subject: [OASIS Issue Tracker] (VIRTIO-48) require drivers to be future proof

From: OASIS Issues Tracker <workgroup_mailer@lists.oasis-open.org>
To: virtio@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 22:02:30 +0000 (UTC)

     [ https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/VIRTIO-48?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Michael Tsirkin updated VIRTIO-48:
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    Fix Version/s: virtio 1.0 csprd02

> require drivers to be future proof
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: VIRTIO-48
>                 URL: https://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/VIRTIO-48
>             Project: OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Michael Tsirkin
>             Fix For: virtio 1.0 csprd01, virtio 1.0 csprd02
>
>
> in the past drivers took config size documentation to mean
> &amp;quot;this will be the size forever&amp;quot;
> which meant adding fields broke them.
> require drivers to use &amp;gt;= to check size.



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