On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 04:03:10PM -0800, Elliot Berman wrote: > > Agree, tools can be updated and that is the easy part as we grow the s/w > > stack around Gunyah in userspace, like we already do w/ CrosVM (Virtual > > Machine Manager) and QEMU will be next followed by rust-vmm. All of them > > can be done without Gunyah ioctls relying anything on the KVM ioctls. > > Elliot has also explained very well that we don't to go to KVM > > maintainers for any of our additions and we also don't want them to come > > to us, since there is no interoperability testing. It is best that both > > Hypervisors and their Linux interfaces evolve independently. > > Are above explanations reasonable to not re-use KVM ioctl numbers? Try getting close at least, where possible please. As your ioctl numbers didn't even start at 0, it's a bit odd... thanks, greg k-h