Re: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11] Unplug emulated disks and nics

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 27 May 2010, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 11/11] Unplug emulated 
> disks and nics"):
> > On Wed, 26 May 2010, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> > > Wow, this interface is perverse.  It reuses the same IO port but changes
> > > function depending on the size of the IO?  Again, wow.
> >  
> > Yeah, before you ask, I didn't write it :)
> 
> Yes, neither did I :-).  However, I did document it and now I also
> maintain the "product number" registry.  Did you find the interface
> spec ?  Enclosed below in case not.
> 
> I hereby allocate you ("pvops PV-on-HVM Linux, upstream") product
> number 3.  Does the kernel have a way to distinguish between upstream
> and other versions ?  Eg, there's the kernel version name suffix
> thingy if I remember rightly.  Perhaps we should allocate a different
> number for "some pvops pv-on-hvm Linux with a nonempty kernel version
> name suffix".  Please advise.
> 
> You are welcome to use whatever you like for the "build number".
> Perhaps the best thing would a two-byte encoding of the kernel version
> number if that is possible.  As the purpose is logging and
> blacklisting, it's not that critical although it's better to reuse the
> same number for excessively similar builds than to use a random scheme
> which might generate accidental clashes between unrelated versions.
> 

It seems reasonable to me.
Jeremy, what do you think?


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