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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <svaddagi@qti.qualcomm.com>,
	"jasowang@redhat.com" <jasowang@redhat.com>,
	"virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org"
	<virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org>,
	Trilok Soni <tsoni@quicinc.com>,
	Pratik Patel <pratikp@quicinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] virtio-mmio: Specify wait needed in driver during reset
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 09:19:26 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210726091851-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eebl5msn.fsf@redhat.com>

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 01:36:56PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 26 2021, Srivatsa Vaddagiri <svaddagi@qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:
> 
> >> > +indicated by a read of \field{Status} returning 0. Such a device MUST also
> >> > fail to accept
> >> > +FEATURES_OK bit if driver does not negotiate VIRTIO_F_MMIO_RESET_WAIT.
> >>
> >> So, this basically means that an older driver that does not know the new
> >> feature bit will not work with devices offering this bit, even if it did
> >> poll? This seems acceptable, I just wanted to spell it out.
> >
> > Yes I believe that's the desired result. Device has no way to know if driver
> > will poll for reset completion or not unless it accepts the feature.
> > Are you suggesting we explicitly put in some text in spec to that
> > effect?
> 
> Not sure whether it is needed (do others have an opinion?), but probably
> not.

What about resets before FEATURES_OK? How are these handled?

-- 
MST


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-26 13:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-23 14:55 [PATCH v1] virtio-mmio: Specify wait needed in driver during reset Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-07-26 11:03 ` [virtio-dev] " Cornelia Huck
2021-07-26 11:25   ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-07-26 11:36     ` [virtio-dev] " Cornelia Huck
2021-07-26 13:19       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2021-07-26 14:09         ` Cornelia Huck
2021-07-26 14:17         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-07-26 19:03           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-07-27  9:52             ` [virtio-dev] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-07-29 15:21               ` Cornelia Huck
2021-07-30  3:49                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-08-02  6:06             ` Jason Wang
2021-08-11 10:05               ` [virtio-dev] " Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-08-16  2:09                 ` Jason Wang
2021-08-16  5:35                   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
     [not found]                     ` <20210816063550.GD5604@quicinc.com>
2021-08-16 11:48                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-08-16 13:34                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-08-16 14:37                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-08-16 14:58                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-08-17  5:45                         ` Jason Wang
2021-08-17  7:51                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-08-17  8:15                             ` Jason Wang
2021-08-17 10:03                             ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-08-17 12:48                               ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-08-18  2:57                                 ` Jason Wang
2021-08-18  2:54                               ` Jason Wang
2021-08-18  5:15                                 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-08-18  5:40                                   ` Jason Wang
2021-08-18  5:51                                     ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-08-18  6:04                                       ` Jason Wang
2021-08-18  6:13                                         ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-08-24 16:57                                           ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2021-08-20  3:56                     ` Jason Wang
2021-08-20 11:15                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-07-26 13:18   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2021-07-26 14:13     ` [virtio-dev] " Cornelia Huck

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