Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] VFIO: capability chains

2015-12-17 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 12/18/2015 01:38 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 13:05 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 11/24/2015 07:43 AM, Alex Williamson wrote: Please see the commit log and comments in patch 1 for a general explanation of the problems that this series tries to address. The

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] VFIO: capability chains

2015-12-17 Thread Alex Williamson
On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 13:05 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 11/24/2015 07:43 AM, Alex Williamson wrote: > > Please see the commit log and comments in patch 1 for a general > > explanation of the problems that this series tries to address.  The > > general problem is that we have several

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] VFIO: capability chains

2015-12-17 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 11/24/2015 07:43 AM, Alex Williamson wrote: Please see the commit log and comments in patch 1 for a general explanation of the problems that this series tries to address. The general problem is that we have several cases where we want to expose variable sized information to the user, whether

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] VFIO: capability chains

2015-12-17 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 11/24/2015 07:43 AM, Alex Williamson wrote: Please see the commit log and comments in patch 1 for a general explanation of the problems that this series tries to address. The general problem is that we have several cases where we want to expose variable sized information to the user, whether

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] VFIO: capability chains

2015-12-17 Thread Alex Williamson
On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 13:05 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: > On 11/24/2015 07:43 AM, Alex Williamson wrote: > > Please see the commit log and comments in patch 1 for a general > > explanation of the problems that this series tries to address.  The > > general problem is that we have several

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] VFIO: capability chains

2015-12-17 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 12/18/2015 01:38 PM, Alex Williamson wrote: On Fri, 2015-12-18 at 13:05 +1100, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 11/24/2015 07:43 AM, Alex Williamson wrote: Please see the commit log and comments in patch 1 for a general explanation of the problems that this series tries to address. The

[RFC PATCH 0/3] VFIO: capability chains

2015-11-23 Thread Alex Williamson
Please see the commit log and comments in patch 1 for a general explanation of the problems that this series tries to address. The general problem is that we have several cases where we want to expose variable sized information to the user, whether it's sparse mmaps for a region, as implemented

[RFC PATCH 0/3] VFIO: capability chains

2015-11-23 Thread Alex Williamson
Please see the commit log and comments in patch 1 for a general explanation of the problems that this series tries to address. The general problem is that we have several cases where we want to expose variable sized information to the user, whether it's sparse mmaps for a region, as implemented