From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: Having troubles binding an SR-IOV VF to uio_pci_generic on Amazon instance Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 18:11:54 +0300 Message-ID: <20151001151154.GA24549@redhat.com> References: <20151001120027-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <560CFB66.5050904@scylladb.com> <20151001124211-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <560D0413.5080401@scylladb.com> <20151001131754-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <560D0FE2.7010905@scylladb.com> <20151001135054-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <560D1705.30300@scylladb.com> <20151001142640-mutt-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <560D19C3.4060206@scylladb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com (mx1.redhat.com [209.132.183.28]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90A26A87 for ; Thu, 1 Oct 2015 17:11:57 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <560D19C3.4060206@scylladb.com> List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 02:32:19PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > We already agreed this kernel > >is going to be tainted, and unsupportable. > > Yes. So your only motivation in rejecting the patch is to get the author to > write the ring translation patch and port it to all relevant drivers > instead? Not only that. To make sure users are aware they are doing insecure things when using software poking at device BARs in sysfs. To avoid giving virtualization a bad name for security. To get people to work on safe, maintainable solutions. -- MST