Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Oct 2015 22:32:02 +0100 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] uio_pci_generic: add MSI/MSI-X support |
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On Tue, 06 Oct 2015 12:51:20 -0600 Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com> wrote:
> Of course this is entirely unsafe and this no-iommu driver should taint > the kernel, but it at least standardizes on one userspace API and you're > already doing completely unsafe things with uio. vfio should be > enlightened at least to the point that it allows only privileged users > access to devices under such a (lack of) iommu
I agree with the design, but not with the taint argument. (Unless you want to taint any and all use of UIO drivers which can already do this).
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