Re: [PATCH net-next v9 1/4] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit

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Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:47:03AM CEST, sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>On 4/28/2018 12:50 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:06:57PM CEST,sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx  wrote:
>> > This feature bit can be used by hypervisor to indicate virtio_net device to
>> > act as a standby for another device with the same MAC address.
>> > 
>> > VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY is defined as bit 62 as it is a device feature bit.
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala<sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > ---
>> > drivers/net/virtio_net.c        | 2 +-
>> > include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 3 +++
>> > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>> > 
>> > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> > index 3b5991734118..51a085b1a242 100644
>> > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>> > @@ -2999,7 +2999,7 @@ static struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = {
>> > 	VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ, \
>> > 	VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR, \
>> > 	VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS, \
>> > -	VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX
>> > +	VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX, VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY
>> This is not part of current qemu master (head 6f0c4706b35dead265509115ddbd2a8d1af516c1)
>> Were I can find the qemu code?
>> 
>> Also, I think it makes sense to push HW (qemu HW in this case) first
>> and only then the driver.
>
>I had sent qemu patch with a couple of earlier versions of this patchset.
>Will include it when i send out v10.

The point was, don't you want to push it to qemu first? Did you at least
send RFC to qemu?
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