Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] vdpa: Remove ioctl VHOST_VDPA_SET_CONFIG per spec compliance

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Hello,

On 9/4/24 12:58 AM, Dragos Tatulea wrote:
>
> On 04.09.24 05:38, Jason Wang wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 1:15 AM Carlos Bilbao
>> <carlos.bilbao.osdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> From: Carlos Bilbao <cbilbao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> Remove invalid ioctl VHOST_VDPA_SET_CONFIG and all its implementations
>>> with vdpa_config_ops->set_config(). This is needed per virtio spec
>>> requirements; virtio-spec v3.1 Sec 5.1.4 states that "All of the device
>>> configuration fields are read-only for the driver."
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <cbilbao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Note that only the config space of the modern device is read only. So
>> it should be fine to remove vp_vdpa which only works for modern
>> devices.
> Just out of curiosity: how will this work for devices that are not
> v1.3 compliant but are v1.2 compliant? Or is this true of all devices
> except eni?
>
> Thanks,
> Dragos
>> And for eni, it is a legacy only device, so we should not move the
>> set_config there.


Understood. I'll keep the ENI as is for v3 and will reach out to the maintainers.


>>
>> For the rest, we need the acks for those maintainers.


Thanks, Carlos


>>
>> Thanks
>>




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