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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: kvm-devel <kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	lguest <lguest@ozlabs.org>, Dor Laor <dor.laor@qumranet.com>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] virtio interace
Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:55:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190454934.27805.80.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709211622.22005.arnd@arndb.de>

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 16:22 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 21 September 2007, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > Hmm, I guess we could have a PCI driver which claims all VIRTIO vendor
> > devices.  
> 
> yes, that was the idea.
> 
> > Then it can call virtio_find_driver() (?) at the top of its 
> > probe function to find if there's a matching virtio driver.  
> > This PCI  driver would have to be initialized after all the virtio
> > drivers are registered, but that's easy.
> 
> No, just use the driver model, instead of working against it:

But now each virtio device has two "struct device"s, not one.   And
you've made up a fictional bus to do it.

Yet for PCI systems, it really is a PCI device; exposing a second bus to
userspace just because we put a layer in our implementation is poor
form.

Perhaps this is the easiest way of doing it.  But it's still wrong.

Rusty.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-22  9:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1190289808.7262.223.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-20 12:09 ` [PATCH 1/6] virtio interace Rusty Russell
     [not found] ` <1190290140.7262.228.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-20 12:12   ` [PATCH 2/6] virtio_config Rusty Russell
     [not found]   ` <1190290369.7262.231.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-20 12:14     ` [PATCH 3/6] virtio net driver Rusty Russell
2007-09-20 12:36     ` [kvm-devel] [PATCH 2/6] virtio_config Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <46F26958.4080102@qumranet.com>
2007-09-20 12:55       ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]       ` <46F26DC7.9040001@qumranet.com>
2007-09-21  1:50         ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]         ` <1190339435.19451.23.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-22 13:03           ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]     ` <1190290495.7262.235.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-20 12:16       ` [PATCH 4/6] virtio block driver Rusty Russell
     [not found]       ` <1190290606.7262.239.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-20 12:19         ` [PATCH 5/6] virtio console driver Rusty Russell
2007-09-20 12:27         ` [PATCH 4/6] virtio block driver Jens Axboe
     [not found]         ` <1190290761.7262.242.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-20 12:27           ` [PATCH 6/6] virtio ring helper Rusty Russell
     [not found]           ` <1190291234.7262.246.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-20 12:43             ` [kvm-devel] " Avi Kivity
     [not found]             ` <46F26AF6.60904@qumranet.com>
2007-09-21  2:04               ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]               ` <1190340251.19451.36.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-23 10:05                 ` Avi Kivity
     [not found]                 ` <46F63A64.9070200@qumranet.com>
2007-09-23 11:40                   ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]                   ` <1190547607.27805.120.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-23 11:46                     ` Avi Kivity
2007-09-20 13:05         ` [PATCH 4/6] virtio block driver Jens Axboe
     [not found]         ` <20070920130519.GL2367@kernel.dk>
2007-09-21  2:06           ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-21 11:47             ` Jens Axboe
     [not found]             ` <20070921114703.GN2367@kernel.dk>
2007-09-21 12:30               ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]         ` <20070920122713.GK2367@kernel.dk>
2007-09-21 12:00           ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]           ` <1190376007.27805.19.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-21 12:27             ` Jens Axboe
     [not found]             ` <20070921122746.GO2367@kernel.dk>
2007-09-23  6:47               ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-21 10:48       ` [kvm-devel] [PATCH 3/6] virtio net driver Christian Borntraeger
     [not found]       ` <200709211248.11783.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2007-09-21 11:53         ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]         ` <1190375615.27805.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-21 12:36           ` Christian Borntraeger
     [not found]           ` <200709211436.43964.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2007-09-21 14:08             ` Herbert Xu
     [not found]             ` <20070921140833.GA12242@gondor.apana.org.au>
2007-09-21 14:42               ` Christian Borntraeger
     [not found]               ` <200709211642.25208.borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
2007-09-23  7:13                 ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-20 12:27   ` [kvm-devel] [PATCH 1/6] virtio interace Avi Kivity
     [not found]   ` <46F2674A.2050403@qumranet.com>
2007-09-21 11:37     ` Rusty Russell
2007-09-21 12:05   ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]   ` <200709211405.32116.arnd@arndb.de>
2007-09-21 12:45     ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]     ` <1190378736.27805.54.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-21 14:22       ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]       ` <200709211622.22005.arnd@arndb.de>
2007-09-22  9:55         ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2007-09-22 10:01           ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]           ` <200709221201.33865.arnd@arndb.de>
2007-09-23  8:33             ` Rusty Russell
     [not found]             ` <1190536431.27805.109.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-09-23 11:20               ` Dor Laor
2007-09-20 13:43 ` [PATCH 0/6] virtio with config abstraction and ring implementation Dor Laor
     [not found] ` <46F2791A.8070601@qumranet.com>
2007-09-20 13:50   ` [Lguest] [PATCH 0/6] virtio with config abstraction and ringimplementation Dor Laor
2007-09-21  3:20   ` [PATCH 0/6] virtio with config abstraction and ring implementation Rusty Russell

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