Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] pvpanic: rename to isa-pvpanic

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 06:43:16PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The pvpanic situation is already messed up enough.  Let us give our
> libvirt friends an easy indication that we have untied our side.
> 
> Not-yet-signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> ... because we first have to determine how to expose the device's existence
>     in the ACPI tables or in fw_cfg.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>

So it's isa-pvpanic meaning "I-am-sure-this-is-the-last-bug-pvpanic"

If we feel there's need to give libvirt a way to do
introspection into QEMU bugs, let's architect one.
Randomly renaming devices in the vain hope it's
the last major bug is not it.

NACK




> ---
>  hw/misc/pvpanic.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/misc/pvpanic.c b/hw/misc/pvpanic.c
> index 1928cc9..b53011d 100644
> --- a/hw/misc/pvpanic.c
> +++ b/hw/misc/pvpanic.c
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
>  /* The pv event value */
>  #define PVPANIC_PANICKED        (1 << PVPANIC_F_PANICKED)
>  
> -#define TYPE_ISA_PVPANIC_DEVICE    "pvpanic"
> +#define TYPE_ISA_PVPANIC_DEVICE    "isa-pvpanic"
>  #define ISA_PVPANIC_DEVICE(obj)    \
>      OBJECT_CHECK(PVPanicState, (obj), TYPE_ISA_PVPANIC_DEVICE)
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.3.1