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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Parav Pandit <parav@nvidia.com>
Cc: "virtio-comment@lists.oasis-open.org"
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	Yishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>,
	Maor Gottlieb <maorg@nvidia.com>,
	Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@nvidia.com>
Subject: [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH v8 3/4] admin: Add group member legacy register access commands
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 18:17:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230704181622-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <PH0PR12MB54817F7888F3FAA6F8874055DC2EA@PH0PR12MB5481.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, Jul 04, 2023 at 10:15:34PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > From: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 4, 2023 6:01 PM
> > 
> > In some systems, there's need to support utilizing legacy drivers with devices
> > that do not directly support the legacy interface.
> > In such scenarios, an owner device of a group can provide the legacy interface
> > functionality for group members.
> > The driver of an owner device can then access the legacy interface of a member
> > device on behalf of the legacy member device driver.
> >
> In the last line, I will change from 'legacy member device driver' to just 'member device driver'.

I think it's important to stress legacy since normal driver
that follows the spec does not access legacy interface at all.


> I will fix rest of the comments including having pad bytes after offset and have similar changes in rest of the places.


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  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-04 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-30  4:20 [virtio-dev] [PATCH v8 0/4] admin: Access legacy registers using admin commands Parav Pandit
2023-06-30  4:20 ` [virtio-dev] [PATCH v8 1/4] admin: Split opcode table rows with a line Parav Pandit
2023-06-30  4:20 ` [virtio-dev] [PATCH v8 2/4] admin: Fix section numbering Parav Pandit
2023-06-30  4:20 ` [virtio-dev] [PATCH v8 3/4] admin: Add group member legacy register access commands Parav Pandit
2023-07-04 22:00   ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-07-04 22:15     ` [virtio-dev] " Parav Pandit
2023-07-04 22:17       ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2023-07-04 22:18         ` Parav Pandit
2023-07-04 23:39     ` Parav Pandit
2023-06-30  4:20 ` [virtio-dev] [PATCH v8 4/4] transport-pci: Introduce group legacy group member config region access Parav Pandit
2023-07-04 13:26 ` [virtio-dev] RE: [PATCH v8 0/4] admin: Access legacy registers using admin commands Parav Pandit
2023-07-04 15:40   ` [virtio-dev] " Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-07-04 16:10     ` [virtio-dev] " Parav Pandit

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