Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] 9pfs: fix dependencies

[Cornelia Huck]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 10:47:18 +0100
Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 9 August 2017 at 10:07, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> > While virtio-pci and virtio-ccw seem to require separate dedicated
> > devices (e.g. virtio-9p-pci and virtio-9p-ccw) for everything,
> > virtio-mmio seems to work different. As far as I can see, there are no
> > dedicated virtio-xxx-mmio devices in the code at all. According to
> > https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-August/msg00009.html
> > you simply have to use virtio-xxx-device here instead. And a
> > virtio-9p-device is available. So theoretically, the 9p code should work
> > with virtio-mmio, too, or is there a problem that I did not see yet?
> >
> > Anyway, we likely should not blindly enable this, so unless somebody has
> > a setup to test it, we should go with your current patch instead, I think.  
> 
> As you say, we already compile the virtio-9p-device that can
> plug into any virtio transport. So why not just build it
> whenever virtio of any form is enabled? Having it only
> build if PCI is also enabled seems very odd: the backend
> should not care at all about what transport it is using.

Given the previous discussions, I think just dropping the PCI
dependency is indeed the way to go. I'll send a v3.