Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] virtio: fix HW_COMPAT_2_6 macro for virtio-*-pci drivers

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 09:31:43PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 06:50:47PM +0100, Greg Kurz wrote:
> > Since commit "9a4c0e220d8a hw/virtio-pci: fix virtio behaviour", passing
> > -device virtio-blk-pci.disable-modern=off has no effect on 2.6 machine
> > types because the internal virtio-pci.disable-modern=on compat property
> > always prevail.
> > 
> > This should ideally be fixed in the qdev properties core code, but it is
> > too late in the QEMU 2.8 schedule. So this patch fixes the issue by setting
> > the compat properties for every virtio-*-pci subtypes instead of the base
> > virtio-pci type.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> 
> What's the rush? Either the issue is or isn't 2.8 material. If it is,
> let's fix it in qdev core now. If it isn't no need for quick fixes,
> just wait a bit and merge qdev core fix after 2.8 is out.

Because it is a regression, and changing HW_COMPAT_* is less
risky than changing qdev core rules about -global ordering.

-- 
Eduardo