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

From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2023 07:17:00 -0000

Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 11:48:32PM CET, [email protected] wrote: >On Mon, Mar 06, 2023 at 05:40:04PM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: >> Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 02:04:48PM CET, [email protected] 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? > > > >> This publicly archived list offers a means to provide input to the >> OASIS Virtual I/O Device (VIRTIO) TC. >> >> In order to verify user consent to the Feedback License terms and >> to minimize spam in the list archive, subscription is required >> before posting. >> >> Subscribe: [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: [email protected] >> List help: [email protected] >> List archive: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/virtio-comment/ >> Feedback License: https://www.oasis-open.org/who/ipr/feedback_license.pdf >> List Guidelines: https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/mailing-lists >> Committee: https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/virtio/ >> Join OASIS: https://www.oasis-open.org/join/ >