Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jun 2021 09:57:56 +0200 | From | Stefano Garzarella <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vdpa: mandate 1.0 device |
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On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 01:02:51PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >This patch mandates 1.0 for vDPA devices. The plan is never to support >transitional devices for vDPA devices in the future. > >The reasons are: > >- To have the semantic of normative statement in the virtio spec and > eliminate the burden of transitional device for both vDPA bus and > vDPA parent >- Eliminate the efforts for dealing with endian conversion in the > management tool >- Mandate vDPA vendor to ship modern device instead of transitional > device which is easily broken and unsafe >- Transitional device never work since the first day of vDPA > >Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> >--- > include/linux/vdpa.h | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>
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