On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:22 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Friday 21 September 2007, Rusty Russell wrote: > > Hmm, I guess we could have a PCI driver which claims all VIRTIO vendor > > devices. > > yes, that was the idea. > > > Then it can call virtio_find_driver() (?) at the top of its > > probe function to find if there's a matching virtio driver. > > This PCI driver would have to be initialized after all the virtio > > drivers are registered, but that's easy. > > No, just use the driver model, instead of working against it: But now each virtio device has two "struct device"s, not one. And you've made up a fictional bus to do it. Yet for PCI systems, it really is a PCI device; exposing a second bus to userspace just because we put a layer in our implementation is poor form. Perhaps this is the easiest way of doing it. But it's still wrong. Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
