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[v3,2/3] spec/vhost-user: add VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SET_DEVICE_ID

Message ID 1482145554-88823-3-git-send-email-wei.w.wang@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Wang, Wei W Dec. 19, 2016, 11:05 a.m. UTC 
The VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SET_DEVICE_ID protocol feature indicates
that the slave side implementation supports different types of devices.
The master tells the slave what type of device to create by sending
a VHOST_USER_SET_DEVICE_ID message.

Signed-off-by: Wei Wang <wei.w.wang@intel.com>
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 docs/specs/vhost-user.txt | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt b/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt
index 18e49d0..80dcfc1 100644
--- a/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt
+++ b/docs/specs/vhost-user.txt
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@  Protocol features
 #define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_RARP           2
 #define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_REPLY_ACK      3
 #define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_VHOST_PCI      4
+#define VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SET_DEVICE_ID  5
 
 Message types
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@@ -479,6 +480,16 @@  Message types
       The first 6 bytes of the payload contain the mac address of the guest to
       allow the vhost user backend to construct and broadcast the fake RARP.
 
+ * VHOST_USER_SET_DEVICE_ID
+      Id: 20
+      Equivalent ioctl: N/A
+      Master payload: u64
+
+      The master sends the virtio device id to the slave. The virtio device id
+      indicates the device type of the master device.
+      This request should be sent only when VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_SET_DEVICE_ID
+      has been negotiated.
+
 VHOST_USER_PROTOCOL_F_REPLY_ACK:
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 The original vhost-user specification only demands replies for certain