On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 10:39:07 -0400 Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Currently there are two tools that probably need to be aware of > the changes to these assignment interfaces: > * The hades test framework has tests that will fail if run against > these patches that should be skipped if over-provisioning is > allowed. There are also tests under development to test the > function introduced by these patches that will fail if run against > an older version of the driver. These tests should be skipped in > that case. > * There is a tool under development for configuring AP matrix > mediated devices that probably need to be aware of the change > introduced by this series. > > Since a tool would have to first determine whether a new sysfs > interface documenting facilities is available and it would only > expose one facility at this point, it seems reasonable for these tools > to check for the sysfs guest_matrix attribute to discern whether > over-provisioning is available or not. I'll go ahead and remove this > patch from the series. Thanks for the explanation, that seems reasonable to me.
