On Thursday 02 April 2009 22:03:24 Christian Borntraeger wrote: > I read this as the mac config field is optional (similar to all the optional > fields we added in virtio_blk later). > > I see two options: > 1. Change our sample userspace to always allocate the config (like lguest and > qemu) > 2. Change the kernel code to not write into the config unless a specific feature > bit is set. (e.g. VIRTIO_NET_F_SETMAC) I had assumed it would always exist. Agreed it's unclear; I'm currently writing down the actual standard to avoid such mistakes in the future. Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html