Re: [v2 1/2] qapi/virtio: Add feature and status bits for x-query-virtio-status

[Yong Huang]

Sure. of course. I'll do that next week. While v3 would be a single patch that only contains the first commit.

Thanks,

Yong

On Fri, Dec 22, 2023 at 5:54 PM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:

Hyman Huang <yong.huang@smartx.com> writes:

> This patch allows to display feature and status bits in
> virtio-status.
>
> Applications could find it helpful to compare status and features
> that are numeric encoded. For example, an upper application could
> use the features (encoded as a number) in the output of "ovs-vsctl
> list interface" and the feature bits fields in the output of QMP
> command "x-query-virtio-status" to compare directly when attempting
> to ensure the correctness of the virtio negotiation between guest,
> QEMU, and OVS-DPDK. Not applying any more encoding.
>
> This patch also serves as a preparation for the next one, which implements
> a vhost-user test case about acked features of vhost-user protocol.
>
> Note that since the matching HMP command is typically used for human,
> leave it unchanged.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hyman Huang <yong.huang@smartx.com>

We discussed v1 some more since you posted this.  Do you intend to do a
v3?

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