Re: [char-misc-next 13/13] mei: virtio: virtualization frontend driver

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Dec 03 2020 - 17:01:32 EST


On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 04:51:10PM -0500, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:18:04PM +0000, Winkler, Tomas wrote:
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 02:51:47PM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > > > +#ifndef VIRTIO_ID_MEI
> > > > +#define VIRTIO_ID_MEI 0xFFFE /* virtio mei */ #endif
> > >
> > > Just noticed now that this driver landed upstream. Can I ask that you guys
> > > please register IDs with the virtio TC and not just pick a number at random?
> > > In particular this is way outside allowed range.
> > >
> > > IDs should also be listed in include/uapi/linux/virtio_ids.h
> > >
> > > If people just pick random numbers like this collistions are unavoidable.
> > >
> > > List of IDs is part of virtio spec, chapter "Device Types".
> > >
> > > Please do this change now before this goes out to production!
> > Okay, this was assigned by ACRN, my impression was it's already registered.
> > Will take care of.
> > Thanks
> > Tomas
>
> Well nothing happened yet.
>
> I think at this point we really should revert this patch before Linux is
> released so in the next version the correct ID can be used instead of a reserved one.
> Otherwise Linux will be stuck supporting this forever and will conflict
> with hypervisors using this for what this range is for which is
> experimental use.
>
> Greg, any opinion on that?

I will be glad to revert it, what's the git commit id?

thanks,

greg k-h