[PATCH v10 00/10] Introduce device group and device management

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Michael S. Tsirkin <>
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2023-03-07T17:15:00+00:00
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[PATCH v10 00/10] Introduce device group and device management
On Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 08:17:03AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 11:48:32PM CET,  wrote:
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>On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 05:40:04PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> >> Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 02:04:48PM CET,  wrote:
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >>
> >>
>  admin: introduce device group and related concepts
> >>
>  admin: introduce group administration commands
> >>
>  admin: introduce virtio admin virtqueues
> >>
> >> The ordering seems a bit odd to me. I think that at the beginning, the
> >> admin virtqueue should be introduced with generic concepts (including
> >> the generic command structure), only after that the section introducing
> >> device group stuff and related commands.
> >
>
>That's intentional.
> >
>
>Jason is working on additional ways to pass commands to
>
>devices, using memory mapped registers.
> >
>
>Thus admin commands stand by themselves, and the queue is
>
>just a way to issue them.
>
> Okay, in that case, woudnlt it make sense if the generic CMD text
> (including the generic command structure) would go first, then the
> "group" related cmds?
>

there are not other commands though - they are all group related.

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