Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] virtio: re-order device status bits

Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.virtio-comment
Message-ID <aGY46ohk966g/EIQ@fedora>
On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 04:54:19PM +0800, Zhu Lingshan wrote:
> This commit re-arranges the device status bits,
> to list them in ascending order.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhu Lingshan <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <[email protected]>
> Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/229
> ---
>  content.tex | 14 +++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen <[email protected]>

> diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex
> index d3fc6a4..1efc2a5 100644
> --- a/content.tex
> +++ b/content.tex
> @@ -36,19 +36,19 @@ \section{\field{Device Status} Field}\label{sec:Basic Facilities of a Virtio Dev
>      this bit.  For example, under Linux, drivers can be loadable modules.
>    \end{note}
>  
> -\item[FAILED (128)] Indicates that something went wrong in the guest,
> -  and it has given up on the device. This could be an internal
> -  error, or the driver didn't like the device for some reason, or
> -  even a fatal error during device operation.
> +\item[DRIVER_OK (4)] Indicates that the driver is set up and ready to
> +  drive the device.
>  
>  \item[FEATURES_OK (8)] Indicates that the driver has acknowledged all the
>    features it understands, and feature negotiation is complete.
>  
> -\item[DRIVER_OK (4)] Indicates that the driver is set up and ready to
> -  drive the device.
> -
>  \item[DEVICE_NEEDS_RESET (64)] Indicates that the device has experienced
>    an error from which it can't recover.
> +
> +\item[FAILED (128)] Indicates that something went wrong in the guest,
> +  and it has given up on the device. This could be an internal
> +  error, or the driver didn't like the device for some reason, or
> +  even a fatal error during device operation.
>  \end{description}
>  
>  The \field{device status} field starts out as 0, and is reinitialized to 0 by
> -- 
> 2.49.0
> 
>
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