Re: [PATCH] vdpa: mandate 1.0 device

[Stefano Garzarella]

On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 01:02:51PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> This patch mandates 1.0 for vDPA devices. The plan is never to support
> transitional devices for vDPA devices in the future.
>
> The reasons are:
>
> - To have the semantic of normative statement in the virtio spec and
>  eliminate the burden of transitional device for both vDPA bus and
>  vDPA parent
> - Eliminate the efforts for dealing with endian conversion in the
>  management tool
> - Mandate vDPA vendor to ship modern device instead of transitional
>  device which is easily broken and unsafe
> - Transitional device never work since the first day of vDPA
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/vdpa.h | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx>