Re: [PATCH 1/1] qxl: add subsystem_vendor_id property

[Gerd Hoffmann]

  Hi,

> Anyway, we need to support different PCI sub-vendor IDs
> in order to be compliant with Microsoft WHQL rules. Though,
> actually, at my opinion this requirement has nothing in
> common with libvirt people. The most convenient way
> here would be to specify these properties within vendor
> machine types and this place is a perfect match as any
> respectable has its own machine type.

Yes, when wiring this up via vendor machine types there
is no need to touch libvirt.

> I would also think that PCI level is not a good place for that
> as we would not be able to apply this change blindly as at
> PCI level this change would be too global and the same
> was initially noted by Michael Tsirkin here
> 
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-12/msg04384.html
> 
> Any thoughts?
> What should we do with the original patch from Ben? We
> still need an ability to expose vendor identity in QXL/virtio...

I'd suggest to add properties to PCIDevice then.  That will allow to
override the default subsystem id for both specific pci devices and
all pci devices.

take care,
  Gerd