RE: [PATCH v5 28/28] vfio/xe: Add device specific vfio_pci driver variant for Intel graphics

[Tian, Kevin]

> From: Winiarski, Michal <michal.winiarski@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2025 8:40 PM
> 
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 01:41:17PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 02:46:08PM +0100, Winiarski, Michal wrote:
> > > > > I agree that it should be done in the core eventually.
> > > > > I didn't view it as something blocking next revision, as the discussion
> > > > > was in the context of converting every driver, which is something that
> > > > > probably shouldn't be done as part of this series.
> > > >
> > > > well it doesn't make much sense to push a new driver specific
> > > > implementation when the core approach is preferred.
> > >
> > > This would generally mean that accepting any new VFIO driver variant
> > > would be blocked until core approach materializes.
> > >
> > > Jason, can you confirm that this is indeed what you have in mind?
> > > Just to determine how urgent the core-side changes are, and whether
> > > there's anything we can do to help with that.
> >
> > A core approach would be nice, but I also haven't looked at what it
> > would be like.
> >
> > I think if you post a small series trying to build one and convert
> > some of the existing drivers it would be sufficient to let this go
> > ahead.
> >
> > Jason
> 
> I posted a series that attempts to do just that.
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251120123647.3522082-1-
> michal.winiarski@xxxxxxxxx/
> 
> I would appreciate if we could move forward with the review of this
> series independently. It should be relatively straightforward to convert
> this driver once we're able to get an alignment on specific core-side
> solution.
> 

that core series is simple. so whichever goes first is ok to me.

for what it stands here:

Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>