Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/1] qmp, hmp: add PCI subsystem id and vendor id to PCI info

[Eric Blake]

On 9/18/18 4:58 AM, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
> This is a long story. RedHat has relicensed Windows KVM device drivers

s/RedHat/Red Hat/

> in 2018 and there was an agreement that to avoid WHQL driver conflict
> software manufacturers should set proper PCI subsystem vendor ID in
> their distributions. Thus PCI subsystem vendor id becomes actively used.
>
> The problem is that this field is applied by us via hardware compats.
> Thus technically it could be lost.
>
> This patch adds PCI susbsystem id and vendor id to exportable parameters
> for validation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <address@hidden>
> CC: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> CC: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> CC: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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