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


From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Subject: Re: [Qemu-ppc] [PATCH 12/12] pseries: Generate unique LIOBNs for PCI host bridges
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:44:14 +0200

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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> David Gibson                  | I'll have my music baroque, and my code
> david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au        | minimalist, thank you.  NOT _the_ 
> _other_
>                               | _way_ _around_!
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