Re: [PATCH v14 12/22] vfio: Add notifier callback to parent's ops structure of mdev

From: Kirti Wankhede
Date: Thu Nov 17 2016 - 12:20:51 EST




On 11/17/2016 8:57 PM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:35:38 +0800
> Jike Song <jike.song@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> On 11/17/2016 04:46 AM, Kirti Wankhede wrote:
>>> Add a notifier calback to parent's ops structure of mdev device so that per
>>> device notifer for vfio module is registered through vfio_mdev module.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Neo Jia <cjia@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Change-Id: Iafa6f1721aecdd6e50eb93b153b5621e6d29b637
>>> ---
>>> drivers/vfio/mdev/vfio_mdev.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>> include/linux/mdev.h | 9 +++++++++
>>> 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>
>> Hi Alex, Kirti,
>>
>> Since everyone agreed we should let the vendor driver call vfio_register_notifier
>> directly, can you drop this patch from merging? So that I don't need to send a
>> reverse patch.
>
> This seems like a reasonable request to me, this patch drops cleanly
> from the series. Any objection Kirti? It seems like it removes a
> little bit of pre-release churn from the API. Thanks,
>

This is independent patch, I don't have any concern to drop this patch.

Small nit: Since Documentation patch is later in series, its mentioned
in the doc. One line need to be removed from vfio-mediated-device.txt.

--- a/Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vfio-mediated-device.txt
@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ The callbacks in the parent_ops structure are as
follows:
* read : read emulation callback
* write: write emulation callback
* mmap: mmap emulation callback
-* notifier: notifier callback

Thanks,
Kirti