On Tue, 2019-09-10 at 11:33 -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 05:14:36PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Is any of you familiar with the process of getting a virtio device ID > > assigned, and if so, do you think it'd be feasible? Without that, it'd > > probably be difficult to upstream the patch to support this protocol to > > user-mode Linux. > > Sure, subscribe then send a patch to virtio-comm...@lists.oasis-open.org
Ok, great. > We do expect people to eventually get around to documenting the device > and upstreaming it though. If there's no plan to do it at all, you might > still be able to reuse the virtio code, in that case let's talk. Right, no, I do want to and am working on the code now, but it's a bit of a chicken & egg - without an ID I can't really send any code upstream :-) I can accompany the request for a new ID with working patches. What kind of documentation beyond the header file should be added, and where? johannes
