Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] s390: virtio: let arch accept devices without IOMMU feature

[Halil Pasic]

On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:20:51 +0200
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > +	if (arch_needs_virtio_iommu_platform(dev) &&
> > > +		!virtio_has_feature(dev, VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM)) {
> > > +		dev_warn(&dev->dev,
> > > +			 "virtio: device must provide VIRTIO_F_IOMMU_PLATFORM\n");    
> > 
> > I'm not sure, divulging the current Linux name of this feature bit is a
> > good idea, but if everybody else is fine with this, I don't care that  
> 
> Not sure if that feature name will ever change, as it is exported in
> headers. At most, we might want to add the new ACCESS_PLATFORM define
> and keep the old one, but that would still mean some churn.
> 
> > much. An alternative would be:
> > "virtio: device falsely claims to have full access to the memory,
> > aborting the device"  
> 
> "virtio: device does not work with limited memory access" ?
> 
> But no issue with keeping the current message.

I think I prefer Conny's version, but no strong feelings here.

Halil