Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 12/12] pseries: Generate unique LIOBNs for PCI host bridges

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:59:51PM +1100, David Gibson wrote:
> > Look, even if solution using a required property is less elegant for CLI
> > use, it will work, won't it?
> > So how about we merge it so that things work, and then we can discuss a
> > patch on top that auto-generates this property?
> 
> Well, there you have a point.  And actually I've realised there are
> other things we need to assign uniquely for each PHB and don't yet (IO
> window addresses).  So I need to look at a wider rework of this, which
> I'll start on next week.

Fine. Basically my point is it's typically a mistake to
make some userspace visible parameter depend on order
of initialization of devices in qemu. I don't insist
on making users fully specify such parameters but it
is one way to do this.


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