Re: [virtio-dev] [PATCH] transitional: minor clarification

"Michael S. Tsirkin" <> writes:
> It's useful to have a common term that includes
> transitional drivers running on legacy devices
> and legacy drivers running on transitional devices.
> The wording "using legacy interface" seems to
> describe this well, let's make this
> explicit.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <>

That's the kind of minor clarification I'd commit directly for review at
next meeting, IMHO.

Cheers,
Rusty.

> ---
>
> Maybe this should be committed under the minor fixes rule?
> I wasn't sure so here it is.
>
>  virtio-v1.0-wd01-part1-specification.txt | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/virtio-v1.0-wd01-part1-specification.txt b/virtio-v1.0-wd01-part1-specification.txt
> index 8f0cdd5..97b89f5 100644
> --- a/virtio-v1.0-wd01-part1-specification.txt
> +++ b/virtio-v1.0-wd01-part1-specification.txt
> @@ -193,6 +193,7 @@ Transitional Drivers can detect Legacy Devices by detecting that
>  the feature bit VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 is not offered.
>  Transitional devices can detect Legacy drivers by detecting that
>  VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1 has not been acknowledged by the driver.
> +In this case device is used through the legacy interface.
>  
>  To make them easier to locate, specification sections documenting
>  these transitional features are explicitly marked with 'Legacy
> -- 
> MST
>
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