From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5754A6CD6 for ; Thu, 12 May 2016 19:02:38 +0200 (CEST) Received: from int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C4137D0E6; Thu, 12 May 2016 17:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from redhat.com (ovpn-116-64.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.116.64]) by int-mx09.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with SMTP id u4CH2XDD019657; Thu, 12 May 2016 13:02:34 -0400 Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 20:02:33 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" To: "Tan, Jianfeng" Cc: Yuanhan Liu , dev@dpdk.org, Huawei Xie , rich.lane@bigswitch.com, nakajima.yoshihiro@lab.ntt.co.jp, p.fedin@samsung.com, ann.zhuangyanying@huawei.com, mukawa@igel.co.jp, nhorman@tuxdriver.com Message-ID: <20160512200040-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> References: <1461892716-19122-1-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <1461892716-19122-7-git-send-email-jianfeng.tan@intel.com> <20160512021208.GA17474@yliu-dev.sh.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.22 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.27]); Thu, 12 May 2016 17:02:37 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 6/8] virtio-user: add new virtual pci driver for virtio X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 17:02:38 -0000 On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 03:08:05PM +0800, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: > (2) It's more aligned to previous logic to hide the detail to differentiate > modern/legacy device. Why is there a need to support legacy interfaces at all? It's a container so if it's in use one can be reasonably sure you have a new kernel. -- MST