Re: [PATCH] spapr: Clarify why DR connectors aren't user creatable

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 01:26:39PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> DR connector is a device that emulates a firmware abstraction used by PAPR
> compliant guests to manage hotplug/dynamic-reconfiguration of PHBs, PCI
> devices, memory, and CPUs.
> 
> It is internally created by the spapr platform and requires to be owned by
> either the machine (PHBs, CPUs, memory) or by a PHB (PCI devices).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>

Applied to ppc-for-5.2, thanks.

> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c
> index 697b28c34305..77718cde1ff2 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_drc.c
> @@ -586,7 +586,8 @@ static void spapr_dr_connector_class_init(ObjectClass *k, void *data)
>      dk->realize = realize;
>      dk->unrealize = unrealize;
>      /*
> -     * Reason: it crashes FIXME find and document the real reason
> +     * Reason: DR connector needs to be wired to either the machine or to a
> +     * PHB in spapr_dr_connector_new().
>       */
>      dk->user_creatable = false;
>  }
> 
> 

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