The type is detected based on the live status bits. Once detected,
it's not supposed to be changed, so we have some sanity checks for
that.

v2: Rebase.

Cc: Animesh Manna <animesh.manna@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180725002813.6938-3-paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com