On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 04:24:28PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > > caps can be anywhere, but we don't expect it to change during machine > > > execution lifetime. > > > > > > Or I am just confused by the name "pci_device_load" ? > > > > Right. So I want to load an image and it has capability X at offset Y. > > wmask has to match. I don't want to assume that we never change Y > > for the device without breaking old images, so I clear wmask here > > and set it up again after looking up capabilities that I loaded. > > We should not be loading state into a different device (or a similar device > with a different set of capabilities). > > If you want to provide backwards compatibility then you should do that by > creating a device that is the same as the original. As I mentioned in my > earlier mail, loading a snapshot should never do anything that can not be > achieved through normal operation. > > Paul Why shouldn't it? You don't load a snapshot while guest is running. -- MST -- 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
