Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-pci: Don't force Subsystem Vendor ID = Vendor ID

[Gerd Hoffmann]

> > > Signed-off-by: Ladi Prosek <address@hidden>
> > 
> > I wonder whether it's a problem that legacy devices ignore
> > the subsystem ID (that's part of spec).
> 
> I don't understand this comment. I don't see anything in the spec
> related to ignoring the subsystem ID.

Well, the subsystem *device* id is defined to be the virtio device id,
so it is certainly not ignored.  The subsystem *vendor* id is not used
as far I know (or ignored in the sense that it doesn't change driver
behavior), allowing to set that makes sense to me.

Possibly not only for virtio devices, most pci devices have 1af4:1100
as subsystem id, other vendors might want set it too for consistency.

cheers,
  Gerd