[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3]: vmware backdoor interface fix

[Gleb Natapov]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 01:58:16PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Chris Lalancette wrote:
>> VMWare backdoor interface should work with IN/OUT port ops, but
>> currently only IN is supported. BOCHS bios uses OUT to query UUID.
>> The patch adds OUT support.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Gleb Natapov <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
>>   
>
> Applied.  Thanks.
>
> I'm going to hold off on the rest of the series until we work out a  
> better way to support -uuid.  This is a pretty obvious fix though.
>
I don't get this logic. Either delete backdoor interface entirely, or
use is for something it was intended to be used for (uuid interface is
documented and proposed implementation is compatible with VMWare). Why
fix something you are not going to use?

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                        Gleb.