Re: [tip: x86/sev] virt: Add SEV-SNP guest driver

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2022 at 12:40:11PM -0500, Tom Lendacky wrote:
> The driver name is used when registering the driver in
> snp_init_platform_device() and isn't really referenced after that. The
> module name is sevguest.ko, while the device name ends up being
> /dev/sev-guest.
> 
> All that really matters is the device name that is exposed to user space.
> But if we want things to match, then, yes, we can change the name that is
> used in arch/x86/kernel/sev.c and drivers/virt/coco/sevguest/sevguest.c
> to "sev-guest" if that works. Do you want the module name to also be
> sev-guest.ko?

Just to ack this on the ML after our IRC discussion: yeah, let's keep
the common driver name sev-guest in order to avoid confusion. Other
functionality like SEV-ES or only SEV can still go in there, if needed,
but the name can remain.

Thx.

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