On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:41:29 +0100 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <m...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 09:47:20AM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote: > > Well, we do need the changes in way more than two places, as every host > > or guest has to collect the definitions on its own, no? > > This has nothing to do with host. Hm, but all hosts and all guests need the ids, no? > It's just using linux source as main basis for the file > simply because linux is a higher visibility project than qemu, > they won't borrow code from us but we can borrow from them. It still seems restricting to use Linux as the ultimate source - and that has nothing to do with visibililty. I'd say pulling from any project is restricting: Why shouldn't we want to implement something in qemu that Linux is not (yet) interested in, but other guests are? > > (Granted, with > > Linux and qemu you get most of the users; but it feels a bit strange > > for a host implementation to collect information from one of its > > guests. I really think that we should go back to the common root. > > Didn't we have a BSD-licenced header in the spec?) > > virtio linux headers are also BSD licensed intentionally for this > purpose. > * This header is BSD licensed so anyone can use the definitions to > * implement compatible drivers/servers. Sure, but I always took this to mean "you can freely copy the definitions", not "this is the authorative source".