Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: expose header to userspace
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2017-01-13 13:31:14
Possibly related (same subject, not in this thread)
- 2017-01-13 · Re: [PATCH] virtio_mmio: expose header to userspace · Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
- 2017-01-12 · [PATCH] virtio_mmio: expose header to userspace · "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:58:22PM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 11:37:22PM +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:quoted
It's handy for userspace emulators like QEMU.But it's not actually a userspace API - it's an on the write protocol.
We do this for all other virtio transports, mmio shouldn't be any different.
so: NAK.
We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. It's the interface beween linux and the hypervisor. It isn't any less stable than the one to userspace, for better or worse kvm (ab)uses uapi for that. Compare also to include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h etc. -- MST