Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Oct 2014 17:29:42 +0200 | From | Cornelia Huck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 10/15] virtio: add API to enable VQs early |
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On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 18:11:16 +0300 "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> virtio spec 0.9.X requires DRIVER_OK to be set before > VQs are used, but some drivers use VQs before probe > function returns. > Since DRIVER_OK is set after probe, this violates the spec. > > Even though under virtio 1.0 transitional devices support this > behaviour, we want to make it possible for those early callers to become > spec compliant and eventually support non-transitional devices. > > Add API for drivers to call before using VQs. > > Sets DRIVER_OK internally. > > Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> > --- > include/linux/virtio_config.h | 17 +++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
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