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02783: Resolve VIRTIO-138: multiple errors in section: Non-transitional Device With Legacy Driver

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Submitted By Mr. Michael S. Tsirkin on 2015-04-03 2:34 pm UTC

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Please vote Yes if you agree with all of the following. If you disagree, please vote No. If you don't have an opinion, please vote Abstain. I move that: The TC agrees to resolve the following specification issue: VIRTIO-138: multiple errors in section: Non-transitional Device With Legacy Driver -------------------------------------- virtio 1.0 has two sections titled "Non-transitional Device With Legacy Driver" the first says devices SHOULD fail, the second says devices MUST fail. Clearly a mistake. Other issues: devices don't really fail - they cause drivers to fail. second section seems to be in the wrong place, and also have a section followed by subsection with no explanatory text in between, which is ugly. Finally, this text was originally ritten to handle buggy windows drivers gracefully, but later we changed device IDs so it's not really required there. Might be handy for some other buggy legacy drivers, though no such drivers are known. -------------------------------------- The TC accepts the following proposed changes to the specification: -------------------------------------- Subject: [PATCH] multiple errors: Non-transitional With Legacy Newsgroups: gmane.comp.emulators.virtio.devel, gmane.comp.emulators.virtio.committee Date: 2015-03-26 19:28:49 GMT (19 hours and 50 minutes ago) To fix, drop the duplicate section variant, add some explanatory text, clarify what does "same ID" mean here, and clarify that the work-around is only needed if a buggy driver is known to bind to a transitional device. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.virtio.devel/726 -------------------------------------- The TC agrees to include the above change(s) in specification version(s) "virtio 1.0 cs03", and future versions of the specification. -------------------------------------- Reminder: A Voting Member must be active in a TC to maintain voting rights. As the Virtio TC has adopted a standing rule to conduct business only by electronic ballot, without Meetings, a Voting Member who fails to cast a ballot in two consecutive Work Product Ballots loses his or her voting rights at the close of the second ballot missed. --------------------------------------