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From: | Markus Armbruster |
Subject: | [Qemu-devel] No more chameleon devices (was: [PATCH] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices) |
Date: | Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:57:39 +0200 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Laine Stump <address@hidden> writes: [...] > In the end, having a device that changed PCI ID depending on what kind > of slot it was plugged into was an idea "too clever for its own good", > should be avoided when new devices are added in the future, and we > should at least provide an alternative that doesn't do that for existing > devices. That means for each chameleon PCI/PCIe device: * create a pair of devices that can only go into one kind of slot * deprecate the chameleon Yes, please! Volunteers? Do we have similar chameleons outside PCI? [...]
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