Re: [RFC] virtio-mmio: Update the device to OASIS spec version

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On Tue, 2015-01-20 at 17:44 +0000, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Good. But your current code will also try to support a mix: device that
> uses the new transport underneath, but old layout and semantics on top.

It will not try to support the mix, but rather will not stop it from
working.

> This has no value: the spec does *not* define such devices
> and it also does not match any hosts, so this just adds to support matrix.
> And if linux supports it, someone *will* ship such a
> device and we'll be stuck with it forever.
>
> So please, detect out of spec devices and fail gracefully.
> pci and s390 do this already.

Ok, let it be. Will send v2 in a second.

Pawel

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