On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 11:25 AM Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 3/15/23 12:05 AM, Jason Wang wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 9:31 AM Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> These are the adminq commands that will be needed for > >> setting up and using the vDPA device. > > > > It's better to explain under which case the driver should use adminq, > > I see some functions overlap with common configuration capability. > > More below. > > Yes, I agree this needs to be more clearly stated. The overlap is > because the original FW didn't have the virtio device as well modeled > and we had to go through adminq calls to get things done. Does this mean the device could be actually probed by a virtio-pci driver? > Now that we > have a reasonable virtio emulation and can use the virtio_net_config, we > have a lot less need for the adminq calls. Please add those in the changelog. Btw, adminq should be more flexible since it's easier to extend for new features. If there's no plan to model a virtio-pci driver we can even avoid mapping PCI capabilities which may simplify the codes. Thanks _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
