[Qemu-devel] No more chameleon devices (was: [PATCH] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices)

[Markus Armbruster]

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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