Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 11:06:31AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 12:01:37PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
[...]
> > I'm considering doing this in v2:
> > 
> > * Remove the -0.9 device type, because nobody seems to need it
> > * Add two device types:
> >   * virtio-1-blk-pci-non-transitional
> >   * virtio-1-blk-pci-transitional
> > 
> > This way, we:
> > * Include only the major version of the spec (so
> >   we don't require new device types for virtio 1.1, 1.2, etc),
> > * Use terms that come from the Virtio spec itself, to avoid
> >   ambiguity.
> 
> I'd say just drop "1" completely then.  E.g. transitional and legacy
> have same ID's, differences are internal and not interesting to users.
> If spec comes up with a new type of device it will come up with a new
> term for it, I am sure.

Sounds good to me.  I'll do that in v2.

-- 
Eduardo