Re: what should a virtio-mmio transport without a backend look like?

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On 06/21/2013 02:28 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 21 June 2013 19:01, Christopher Covington <cov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Anyhow, I just did a quick experiment with 0-size block devices, and they seem
>> to work for me, although trying to mount the device yields the confusing
>> message, "mount: mounting /dev/vda on mount failed: Invalid argument".
> 
> I'm confused -- what's the significance of zero size
> block devices?

You were proposing to use a valid/existing MagicValue/Version/VendorID with a
special DeviceID that does nothing. I'm saying why not use a valid/existing
MagicValue/Version/VendorID/DeviceID with a special parameter setting, size=0,
that does nothing?

Christopher

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