Re: [PATCH v10 10/17] virtio: Handle device reset failure in register_virtio_device()

[Yongji Xie]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 4:09 PM Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> 在 2021/7/29 下午3:34, Xie Yongji 写道:
> > The device reset may fail in virtio-vdpa case now, so add checks to
> > its return value and fail the register_virtio_device().
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> So the reset() would be called by the driver during remove as well, or
> is it sufficient to deal only with the reset during probe?
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Actually there is no way to handle failure during removal. And it
should be safe with the protection of software IOTLB even if the
reset() fails.

Thanks,
Yongji