Re: [PATCH] vfio-pci: PCI hot reset interface

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 14:20 -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> I try to handle the slot as opaque, only caring that the slot pointer
> matches, so I think our implementation is ok... so long as we only get
> one driver claiming to manage a slot, but that's not a vfio problem ;)
> Thanks,

By why bother with slots ? Why do you even think about slots in that
context ? slots are a badly defined thing in our current PCI stack,
pretty much intricated with hotplug. I don't see why the reset semantics
would be tied to slots at all.

The only case where it *might* make some sense (and even then ...) is if
you want to start exposing slot power control and PERST but that would
imply a pile of platform specific gunk anyway.

Ben.


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