[Engine-devel] [libvirt] Supporting native USB in oVirt

[Oved Ourfalli]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel at redhat.com>
> To: "Hans de Goede" <hdegoede at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Oved Ourfalli" <ovedo at redhat.com>, "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>, libvirt-list at redhat.com, "Eli
> Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 4:24:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [libvirt] [Engine-devel] Supporting native USB in oVirt
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I can imagine a syntax like this:
> > 
> >     <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-ehci1'>
> >     </controller>
> >     <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci1'>
> >       <master id='usb' startport='0'/>
> >     </controller>
> >     <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci2'>
> >       <master id='usb' startport='2'/>
> >     </controller>
> >     <controller type='usb' index='0' model='ich9-uhci3'>
> >       <master id='usb' startport='4'/>
> >     </controller>
> 
> I think this should have been just something like ...
> 
> <controller type='usb' model='ich9-ehci-with-companions' />
> 
> ... since day one.  It's not like those are 4 independant usb
> controllers.
> 
I totally agree. That would make things much more simple, as each component now has to be aware of all the controller (EHCI + companion controllers), without any good reason.
Is that possible to do this change?

> cheers,
>   Gerd
> 
>