Thread (24 messages) 24 messages, 4 authors, 2019-10-30

Re: [PATCH V5 4/6] mdev: introduce virtio device and its device ops

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Date: 2019-10-29 10:43:50
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On 2019/10/29 下午3:42, Zhu Lingshan wrote:
quoted
+    void (*set_status)(struct mdev_device *mdev, u8 status);
Hi Jason

Is it possible to make set_status() return an u8 or bool, because this
may fail in real hardware. Without a returned code, I am not sure 
whether it is a good idea to set the status | NEED_RESET when fail.

Thanks,
BR
Zhu Lingshan 

Hi:


It's possible but I'm not sure whether any user will care about it. E.g
see virtio_add_status():

void virtio_add_status(struct virtio_device *dev, unsigned int status)
{
    might_sleep();
    dev->config->set_status(dev, dev->config->get_status(dev) | status);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(virtio_add_status);

And I believe how it work should be:

virtio_add_status(xyz);

status = virtio_get_status();

if (!(status & xyz))

    error;

Thanks


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