Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Nov 2014 02:09:00 -0500 (EST) | From | Jason Wang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] virito: introduce methods of fixing device features |
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----- Original Message ----- > Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> writes: > > Buggy host may advertised buggy host features (a usual case is that host > > advertise a feature whose dependencies were missed). In this case, driver > > should detect and disable the buggy features by itself. > > Sorry, I've been focussing elsewhere. > > I would really prefer that drivers offer a "feature_depends" table, > which can indicate that feature A depends on feature B, and have the > core iterate, complain and fixup as necessary. > > Is that expressive enough, or do we need more? > > Thanks, > Rusty.
I suggested something like this in https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/19/132, but Michael does not like it ...
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