On 04/06/2018 02:09 PM, Halil Pasic wrote: > Yes it is conceptually ugly. I'm 100% with you. That's why it should go > away soon. From the practicality perspective however I would even argue that > it's > helpful to the user: tells 'oops you have forgotten something'. IMHO > it's a shortcut of type make the problem smaller. Regarding what is > harder and what is easier: the author is probably the most fit to decide > that. If it is harder, it makes no sense, as this is all about cutting > corners.
I've just realized, I have overlooked something. And that is using what libvirt calls host-model and host-passthrough mode. There the user does not explicitly ask for ap=on. So the user would get slapped in the face by this 'needs vfio-ap device' message (AFAIU) after upgrading stuff (without even knowing that AP was added) which is extremely ugly! I need to think about this some more.
