Re: [PATCH vfio 10/11] vfio/virtio: Expose admin commands over virtio device

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On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 11:08:49AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 09:56:00AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 
> > > However - the Intel GPU VFIO driver is such a bad experiance I don't
> > > want to encourage people to make VFIO drivers, or code that is only
> > > used by VFIO drivers, that are not under drivers/vfio review.
> > 
> > So if Alex feels it makes sense to add some virtio functionality
> > to vfio and is happy to maintain or let you maintain the UAPI
> > then why would I say no? But we never expected devices to have
> > two drivers like this does, so just exposing device pointer
> > and saying "use regular virtio APIs for the rest" does not
> > cut it, the new APIs have to make sense
> > so virtio drivers can develop normally without fear of stepping
> > on the toes of this admin driver.
> 
> Please work with Yishai to get something that make sense to you. He
> can post a v2 with the accumulated comments addressed so far and then
> go over what the API between the drivers is.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason

/me shrugs. I pretty much posted suggestions already. Should not be hard.
Anything unclear - post on list.

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MST

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