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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>
Cc: anthony@codemonkey.ws, avi@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 RFC] uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:48:51 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090714184850.GA16885@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090714180338.GH25507@x200.localdomain>

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:03:38AM -0700, Chris Wright wrote:
> * Michael S. Tsirkin (mst@redhat.com) wrote:
> > - remove irqcontrol: user can enable interrupts by
> >   writing command register directly
> 
> Sorry if I gave you the impression that removing was needed.
> I actually think the irqcontrol was useful since it's atomic.

What I'm saying, it is not strictly needed (user can safely write 0 in
that register and worst case you just get an extra interrupt).  So let's
make the decision on what does irqcontrol do when we have a pressing
need for an extra kernel/user interface.

> > +	gdev->info.name = "uio_pci_generic";
> > +	gdev->info.version = "0.01";
> 
> Minor nit: DRIVER_VERSION

Ack.

> Otherwise, it looks good.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -chris

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-14 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-13 16:16 [PATCHv3 RFC] uio: add generic driver for PCI 2.3 devices Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-14 18:03 ` Chris Wright
2009-07-14 18:48   ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2009-07-14 23:25     ` Chris Wright
2009-07-15  5:00       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-15 19:29         ` Chris Wright

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