On Wed, Aug 10 2022, Ricardo Cañuelo <ricardo.canuelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Basic doc about Virtio on Linux and a short tutorial on Virtio drivers. > > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cañuelo <ricardo.canuelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/driver-api/index.rst | 1 + > Documentation/driver-api/virtio/index.rst | 11 ++ > Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio.rst | 144 ++++++++++++++ > .../virtio/writing_virtio_drivers.rst | 186 ++++++++++++++++++ > MAINTAINERS | 1 + > 5 files changed, 343 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/virtio/index.rst > create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/virtio/virtio.rst > create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/virtio/writing_virtio_drivers.rst > (...) > +.. rubric:: Footnotes > + > +.. [#f1] that's why they may be also referred as virtrings. "referred to" (...) > +The ``probe`` method does the minimum driver setup in this case > +(memory allocation for the device data) and initializes the > +virtqueue. The virtqueues are automatically enabled after ``probe`` > +returns, sending the appropriate "DRIVER_OK" status signal to the > +device. If the virtqueues need to be enabled before ``probe`` ends, they > +can be manually enabled by calling virtio_device_ready(): > + > +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/virtio_config.h > + :identifiers: virtio_device_ready Hm, not quite sure what the actual expectations are here: Should the driver set DRIVER_OK in its probe function, and the core only set it as a fallback? Michael, Jason? (...) LGTM in general. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
