Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-11-07 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 11/07/16 17:49, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:24:25 +0200 > Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> On 10/25/16 20:42, Alex Williamson wrote: >>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:24:19 +0200 >>> Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>> Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device

Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-11-07 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:24:25 +0200 Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 10/25/16 20:42, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:24:19 +0200 > > Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > >> Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device > >> installed. When VFIO users intend to assign

Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-11-02 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 10/25/16 20:24, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device > installed. When VFIO users intend to assign these devices to VMs, they > occasionally don't want to assign all of them; they'd keep a few for > host-side use. The current ID- and cla

Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-10-25 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 10/25/16 21:24, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 10/25/16 20:42, Alex Williamson wrote: >> FWIW, I think the reason >> this hasn't been done to date is that PCI bus addresses (except for >> root bus devices) are not stable. Depending on the system, the address >> of a given device may change, not only

Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-10-25 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 10/25/16 20:42, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:24:19 +0200 > Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device >> installed. When VFIO users intend to assign these devices to VMs, they >> occasionally don't want to assign all of

Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-10-25 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:24:19 +0200 Laszlo Ersek wrote: > Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device > installed. When VFIO users intend to assign these devices to VMs, they > occasionally don't want to assign all of them; they'd keep a few for > host-side use. The c

[PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-10-25 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device installed. When VFIO users intend to assign these devices to VMs, they occasionally don't want to assign all of them; they'd keep a few for host-side use. The current ID- and class-based matching in pci-stub doesn't accommoda