On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 01:54:42PM +0000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > 1) "virtio" vs "vhost", I implemented matching method for this in mdev > > series, but it looks unnecessary for vDPA device driver to know about this. > > Anyway we can use sysfs driver bind/unbind to switch drivers > > 2) virtio device id and vendor id. I'm not sure we need this consider the > > two drivers so far (virtio/vhost) are all bus drivers. > > As we seem to be contemplating some dynamic creation of vdpa devices I > think upon creation time it should be specified what mode they should > run it and then all driver binding and autoloading should happen > automatically. Telling the user to bind/unbind is a very poor > experience.
Maybe but OTOH it's an existing interface. I think we can reasonably start with bind/unbind and then add ability to specify the mode later. bind/unbind come from core so they will be maintained anyway. -- MST _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
