Re: [Qemu-devel] address order of virtio-mmio devices

[Peter Maydell]

On 30 January 2015 at 11:38, Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> wrote:
> Please note that (as far as I understand) the patch that I referenced is
> indeed very new, it's not part of v3.18, but the reversal can easily be
> seen with v3.18. In other words, the kernel patch I referenced
> introduces no functional change, it just reorganizes stuff in the kernel
> (AIUI), with the benefit of killing a superfluous field.
>
> The reason I referenced it because its *commit message* gives good
> background. If we really wanted to find the kernel change that reversed
> the traversal, we'd have to talk to Grant and/or bisect the kernel.

Just as a sanity check, do we actually have an old kernel that
enumerates in the opposite order (as opposed to my two-year-old
"I'm sure this used to be right" memories...) ?

-- PMM