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SubjectRe: [PATCH 09/11] PCI: add matching checks for driver_override binding
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On 6/9/2021 4:27 AM, Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 19:45:17 -0300
> Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 08, 2021 at 03:26:43PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>>>> drivers that specifically opt into this feature and the driver now has
>>>> the opportunity to provide a proper match table that indicates what HW
>>>> it can properly support. vfio-pci continues to support everything.
>>> In doing so, this also breaks the new_id method for vfio-pci.
>> Does it? How? The driver_override flag is per match entry not for the
>> entire device so new_id added things will work the same as before as
>> their new match entry's flags will be zero.
> Hmm, that might have been a testing issue; combining driverctl with
> manual new_id testing might have left a driver_override in place.
>
>>> Sorry, with so many userspace regressions, crippling the
>>> driver_override interface with an assumption of such a narrow focus,
>>> creating a vfio specific match flag, I don't see where this can go.
>>> Thanks,
>> On the other hand it overcomes all the objections from the last go
>> round: how userspace figures out which driver to use with
>> driver_override and integrating the universal driver into the scheme.
>>
>> pci_stub could be delt with by marking it for driver_override like
>> vfio_pci.
> By marking it a "vfio driver override"? :-\

Of course not. We'll mark it as "stub driver override".

>
>> But driverctl as a general tool working with any module is not really
>> addressable.
>>
>> Is the only issue the blocking of the arbitary binding? That is not a
>> critical peice of this, IIRC
> We can't break userspace, which means new_id and driver_override need
> to work as they do now. There are scads of driver binding scripts in
> the wild, for vfio-pci and other drivers. We can't assume such a
> narrow scope. Thanks,
>
> Alex
>

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