lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2021]   [Mar]   [10]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 02/14] vfio: Update vfio_add_group_dev() API
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 07:48:38AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 02:47:40PM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > Rather than an errno, return a pointer to the opaque vfio_device
> > to allow the bus driver to call into vfio-core without additional
> > lookups and references. Note that bus drivers are still required
> > to use vfio_del_group_dev() to teardown the vfio_device.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
>
> This looks like it is superseded by the
>
> vfio: Split creation of a vfio_device into init and register ops

Yes, that series puts vfio_device everywhere so APIs like Alex needs
to build here become trivial.

The fact we both converged on this same requirement is good

Jason

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2021-03-10 13:20    [W:0.407 / U:0.148 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site