Am 03.11.2010 14:02, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Jan Kiszka <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> These qemu-kvm-only interfaces were broken by b560a9ab9b, but no one
>> complained loud enough to get them fixed again. As we have properly
>> working "-device pci-assign"/"device_add" and we won't push this
>> upstream anyway, there is likely no point in restoring the interface.
> 
> Agree.  Dan wrote re libvirt:
> 
>     As of libvirt >= 0.8.1 & QEMU >= 0.12.x we use switched to using
>     -device for everything. Older libvirt versions had rather broken
>     checking for PCI device topology, so I think it is fine to require
>     libvirt >= 0.8.1 for latest QEMU releases if users want PCI dev
>     assignment. Thus -pcidevice and pci_add can both be killed from our
>     POV.
> 
> Note that this patch keeps pci_add nic|storage around.  Unlikely to make
> it upstream.

pci_add is already in upstream.

Jan

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