From: Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2021 06:42:15 +0000 (+0530)
Subject: NEWS: document new acpi pci hotplug config option
X-Git-Tag: v7.9.0-rc1~240
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5ee4f3e1d4f173f7e1b64b745ab9ef5dc8c8f393;p=thirdparty%2Flibvirt.git

NEWS: document new acpi pci hotplug config option

Added the following new libvirt conf option to the release note to
indicate their availability with the next release:

<feature>
  <pci>
    <acpi-bridge-hotplug state='off|on'/>
  </pci>
</feature>

Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@anisinha.ca>
Reviewed-by: Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>
---

diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index caa61f0646..ae678bffc4 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -32,6 +32,14 @@ v7.9.0 (unreleased)
     controller. The default behavior is unchanged (hotplug is
     allowed).
 
+  * Add a new global feature for controlling ACPI PCI hotplug on bridges
+
+    A new ``<feature>`` config option ``<acpi-bridge-hotplug>`` under ``<pci>``
+    sub-element have been added to allow users enable/disable ACPI based PCI
+    hotplug for cold plugged bridges (that is, bridges that were present in the
+    domain definition when the guest was first started).This setting is only
+    applicable for x86 guests using qemu driver.
+
 * **Improvements**
 
 * **Bug fixes**