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From: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V7 6/7] xl: add usb-assignable-list command
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:26:44 +0200
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On 10/07/2015 04:05 PM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-10-07 at 15:54 +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
>
>> Hmm, technically all unassigned USB-devices are usable from Dom0. So why
>> not list them there.
>
> I think you'd at least want to distinguish USB devices available to dom0 as
> via a PCI host controller from those which are available via pvusb.

Yeah, the non-pvusb devices should be listed as "assignable" if they
are handled by a driver domain.

> This also doesn't quite work when driver domains are in the picture.

--host does?

TBH: driver domains seem to be a reason to not support the --host
option. So the options are --all or no special option. I'm still
fine with both.

BTW: Do Xen concepts allow to assign a USB-device via pvUSB from a
driver domain to Dom0?


Juergen