From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kirti Wankhede Subject: Re: [PATCH v14 12/22] vfio: Add notifier callback to parent's ops structure of mdev Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 21:30:26 +0530 Message-ID: <27bfa26c-4d57-7f64-a489-f3d341d00fea@nvidia.com> References: <1479329194-10247-1-git-send-email-kwankhede@nvidia.com> <1479329194-10247-13-git-send-email-kwankhede@nvidia.com> <582DA41A.7010204@intel.com> <20161117082737.7f6ff329@t450s.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kevin.tian@intel.com, cjia@nvidia.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kraxel@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, bjsdjshi@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: Alex Williamson , Jike Song Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20161117082737.7f6ff329@t450s.home> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+gceq-qemu-devel=gmane.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" List-Id: kvm.vger.kernel.org On 11/17/2016 8:57 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:35:38 +0800 > Jike Song 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 >>> Signed-off-by: Neo Jia >>> 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