Re: [PATCH] Revert "hostdev: Use actual device when reattaching"

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On Fri, 2016-04-01 at 10:59 -0400, Laine Stump wrote:
> On 04/01/2016 09:38 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > 
> > This reverts commit ee4cfb56436b50345b072c706b87aff82e06d760.
> > 
> > Since we're still not persisting our bookkeeping lists across
> > daemon restarts, we might have lost some information
> > virPCIDeviceReattach() relies on, for example whether the
> > device needs to be unbound from the stub driver.
> > 
> > As a result, if the daemon has been restarted in the meantime,
> > the device might end up remaining bound to the stub driver even
> > after 'virsh nodedev-reattach' or similar has been called, with
> > no way of giving it back to the host short of messing with
> > sysfs behind libvirt's back.
> > 
> > Revert back to the previous behavior of always trying to bind
> > the device to the host driver, regardless of its status when it
> > was detached, until persistent bookkeeping lists have been
> > implemented.
> > ---
> >   src/util/virhostdev.c | 10 ++++------
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> I haven't been able to test yet if this has any effect on the problem I 
> encountered, but it definitely does fix a known regression that we 
> should get in before the release - ACK.

Pushed, thanks :)

-- 
Andrea Bolognani
Software Engineer - Virtualization Team

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