Re: [PATCH vfio 10/11] vfio/virtio: Expose admin commands over virtio device

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On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 09:56:00AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:

> > However - the Intel GPU VFIO driver is such a bad experiance I don't
> > want to encourage people to make VFIO drivers, or code that is only
> > used by VFIO drivers, that are not under drivers/vfio review.
> 
> So if Alex feels it makes sense to add some virtio functionality
> to vfio and is happy to maintain or let you maintain the UAPI
> then why would I say no? But we never expected devices to have
> two drivers like this does, so just exposing device pointer
> and saying "use regular virtio APIs for the rest" does not
> cut it, the new APIs have to make sense
> so virtio drivers can develop normally without fear of stepping
> on the toes of this admin driver.

Please work with Yishai to get something that make sense to you. He
can post a v2 with the accumulated comments addressed so far and then
go over what the API between the drivers is.

Thanks,
Jason



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