Re: [PATCH 07/10] vfio/mdev: Allow the mdev_parent_ops to specify the device driver to bind

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On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 04:11:29PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 03:35:16PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This allows a mdev driver to opt out of using vfio_mdev.c, instead the
> > driver will provide a 'struct mdev_driver' and register directly with the
> > driver core.
> > 
> > Much of mdev_parent_ops becomes unused in this mode:
> > - create()/remove() are done via the mdev_driver probe()/remove()
> > - mdev_attr_groups becomes mdev_driver driver.dev_groups
> > - Wrapper function callbacks are replaced with the same ones from
> >   struct vfio_device_ops
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> 
> Messy, but ok...

Is there something you'd like to see changed, eg in later patches?
This whole work still has another approx 30 patches to go and much of
this ends up being erased once the drivers are all converted.

Jason



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