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From: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: virtio-comment@lists.linux.dev,
	"Vincent Guittot" <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Manos Pitsidianakis" <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>,
	"Parav Pandit" <parav@nvidia.com>,
	"Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen" <mvaralar@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7] virtio-transport: Add a new section to clarify transport requirements
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:46:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zfqob184.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240711070740-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org>

On Thu, Jul 11 2024, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 01:18:18PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
>> The virtio documentation currently doesn't define any generic
>> requirements that are applicable to all transports. They can be useful
>> while adding support for a new transport.
>> 
>> This commit tries to define the same under a new Appendix section.
>> 
>> Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
>> ---
>
> I am not sure what is this supposed doing - just listing basic things
> transport does or all things it can do?
>
> If the later, this ignores several things that transports can do,
> such as shared memory, data in notification, etc.

Maybe split this up?

A transport needs to implement the following:
<list of mandatory things>

A transport is encouraged to implement the following:
<list of non-mandatory, but strongly suggested things>


  reply	other threads:[~2024-07-11 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-07-11  7:48 [PATCH V7] virtio-transport: Add a new section to clarify transport requirements Viresh Kumar
2024-07-11  8:24 ` Cornelia Huck
2024-07-11  9:05   ` Viresh Kumar
2024-07-11 10:59   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-07-11  8:41 ` Stefano Garzarella
2024-07-11  9:23   ` Viresh Kumar
2024-07-11 11:07     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-07-11 11:10 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-07-11 11:46   ` Cornelia Huck [this message]
2024-07-11 11:51     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-07-11 11:59       ` Cornelia Huck
2024-07-11 14:30         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-07-11 14:44           ` Cornelia Huck
2024-07-11 14:49             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-07-11 14:59               ` Cornelia Huck
2024-07-24 10:45 ` Viresh Kumar
2024-07-24 11:05   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-07-25  9:15     ` Viresh Kumar
2024-07-25  9:28       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-07-25 10:55         ` Viresh Kumar
2024-07-25 12:24           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2024-07-29  3:36             ` Viresh Kumar

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