> From: Winiarski, Michal <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 8:40 PM > > On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 01:41:17PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 02:46:08PM +0100, Winiarski, Michal wrote: > > > > > I agree that it should be done in the core eventually. > > > > > I didn't view it as something blocking next revision, as the > > > > > discussion > > > > > was in the context of converting every driver, which is something that > > > > > probably shouldn't be done as part of this series. > > > > > > > > well it doesn't make much sense to push a new driver specific > > > > implementation when the core approach is preferred. > > > > > > This would generally mean that accepting any new VFIO driver variant > > > would be blocked until core approach materializes. > > > > > > Jason, can you confirm that this is indeed what you have in mind? > > > Just to determine how urgent the core-side changes are, and whether > > > there's anything we can do to help with that. > > > > A core approach would be nice, but I also haven't looked at what it > > would be like. > > > > I think if you post a small series trying to build one and convert > > some of the existing drivers it would be sufficient to let this go > > ahead. > > > > Jason > > I posted a series that attempts to do just that. > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251120123647.3522082-1- > [email protected]/ > > I would appreciate if we could move forward with the review of this > series independently. It should be relatively straightforward to convert > this driver once we're able to get an alignment on specific core-side > solution. >
that core series is simple. so whichever goes first is ok to me. for what it stands here: Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <[email protected]>
