RE: [PATCH vfio] vfio/virtio: Enable support for virtio-block live migration

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> From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2025 6:55 AM
> 
> On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 13:51:17 +0200
> Yishai Hadas <yishaih@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 26/02/2025 10:06, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> > >> From: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >> Sent: Monday, February 24, 2025 8:19 PM
> > >>
> > >>   config VIRTIO_VFIO_PCI
> > >> -	tristate "VFIO support for VIRTIO NET PCI VF devices"
> > >> +	tristate "VFIO support for VIRTIO NET,BLOCK PCI VF devices"
> > >>   	depends on VIRTIO_PCI
> > >>   	select VFIO_PCI_CORE
> > >>   	help
> > >> -	  This provides migration support for VIRTIO NET PCI VF devices
> > >> -	  using the VFIO framework. Migration support requires the
> > >> +	  This provides migration support for VIRTIO NET,BLOCK PCI VF
> > >> +	  devices using the VFIO framework. Migration support requires the
> > >>   	  SR-IOV PF device to support specific VIRTIO extensions,
> > >>   	  otherwise this driver provides no additional functionality
> > >>   	  beyond vfio-pci.
> > >
> > > Probably just describe it as "VFIO support for VIRTIO PCI VF devices"?
> > > Anyway one needs to check out the specific id table in the driver for
> > > which devices are supported. and the config option is called as
> > > VIRTIO_VFIO_PCI
> >
> > I'm OK with that as well, both can work.
> >
> > Alex,
> > Any preference here ?
> 
> What's actually the proposal?  It's fine with me if we want to make the
> tristate summary more generic, but I'd keep the mention of the specific
> devices in the help text.  I don't know many users that preemptively
> look at the id table.
> 

I proposed to remove specific devices from both the summary and
the description. Fine to do it only for the summary.





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