Re: [PATCH 3/5] vfio/pci: add qat devices to blocklist

Bjorn Helgaas
2020-07-10T15:37:46Z

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 04:08:19PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 04:28:12PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2020 at 12:03:00PM +0100, Giovanni Cabiddu wrote:
> > > The current generation of Intel® QuickAssist Technology devices
> > > are not designed to run in an untrusted environment because of the
> > > following issues reported in the release notes in
> > > https://01.org/intel-quickassist-technology:
> >
> > It would be nice if this link were directly clickable, e.g., if there
> > were no trailing ":" or something.
> >
> > And it would be even better if it went to a specific doc that
> > described these issues. I assume these are errata, and it's not easy
> > to figure out which doc mentions them.
> Sure. I will fix the commit message in the next revision and point to the
> actual document:
> https://01.org/sites/default/files/downloads/336211-015-qatsoftwareforlinux-rn-hwv1.7-final.pdf

Since URLs tend to go stale, please also include the Intel document
number and title.

When you update this, you might also update the subject lines. It
looks like the VFIO convention is "vfio/pci: <Capitalized> ...",
based on "git log --oneline drivers/vfio/pci/". And "QAT" should be
capitalized also since it's not a word by itself (and to match usage
in the spec).

Bjorn