From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
To: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Cc: "John Hubbard" <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
"Zhi Wang" <zhiw@nvidia.com>,
"Alistair Popple" <apopple@nvidia.com>,
"Alexandre Courbot" <acourbot@nvidia.com>,
"Joel Fernandes" <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>,
"Timur Tabi" <ttabi@nvidia.com>,
"Surath Mitra" <smitra@nvidia.com>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
"Bjorn Helgaas" <bhelgaas@google.com>,
"Krzysztof Wilczyński" <kwilczynski@kernel.org>,
"Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>,
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LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Alex Williamson" <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] rust: pci: expose is_virtfn() and reject VFs in nova-core
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 09:01:49 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251002120149.GC3195801@nvidia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DD7CREVYE5L7.2FALGBC35L8CN@kernel.org>
On Thu, Oct 02, 2025 at 12:52:10AM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote:
> Indicating whether the driver supports VFs through a boolean in struct
> pci_driver is about the same effort (well, maybe slightly more), but solves the
> problem in a cleaner way since it avoids probe() being called in the first
> place. Other existing drivers benefit from that as well.
I'm strongly against that idea.
Drivers should not be doing things like this, giving them core code
helpers to do something they should not do is the wrong direction.
I think this patchset should be simply dropped. Novacore should try to
boot on a VF and fail if it isn't setup.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-02 12:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-30 22:07 [PATCH 0/2] rust: pci: expose is_virtfn() and reject VFs in nova-core John Hubbard
2025-09-30 22:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] rust: pci: add is_virtfn(), to check for VFs John Hubbard
2025-10-01 0:30 ` Alistair Popple
2025-09-30 22:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] gpu: nova-core: reject binding to SR-IOV Virtual Functions John Hubbard
2025-10-01 0:33 ` Alistair Popple
2025-10-01 1:26 ` John Hubbard
2025-10-01 0:26 ` [PATCH 0/2] rust: pci: expose is_virtfn() and reject VFs in nova-core Alexandre Courbot
2025-10-01 1:26 ` John Hubbard
2025-10-01 1:39 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-10-01 1:45 ` John Hubbard
2025-10-01 8:09 ` Zhi Wang
2025-10-01 14:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-01 21:13 ` Zhi Wang
2025-10-02 1:43 ` Alexandre Courbot
2025-10-02 1:50 ` John Hubbard
2025-10-02 11:58 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-02 12:59 ` Zhi Wang
2025-10-02 13:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-02 14:29 ` Zhi Wang
2025-10-02 14:31 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-07 6:51 ` Zhi Wang
2025-10-07 10:14 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-10-07 11:00 ` Zhi Wang
2025-10-07 11:26 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-01 14:46 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-01 18:16 ` Alex Williamson
2025-10-01 18:30 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-01 22:35 ` John Hubbard
2025-10-02 7:41 ` Zhi Wang
2025-10-01 0:29 ` Alistair Popple
2025-10-01 1:22 ` John Hubbard
2025-10-01 10:32 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-10-01 13:52 ` Zhi Wang
2025-10-01 22:38 ` John Hubbard
2025-10-01 22:52 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-10-01 23:00 ` John Hubbard
2025-10-01 23:47 ` Joel Fernandes
2025-10-01 23:51 ` John Hubbard
2025-10-01 23:55 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-10-02 0:48 ` Joel Fernandes
2025-10-02 0:54 ` John Hubbard
2025-10-02 12:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-02 12:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2025-10-02 12:08 ` Danilo Krummrich
2025-10-02 12:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2025-10-02 12:41 ` Danilo Krummrich
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