> From: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2023 7:56 AM
> 
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 10:12:59PM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
> > Rolling v4 now.
> 
> Great thanks! I think the result will be in a good shape from the ABI point of
> view. Good job!
> 
Thanks.

> I think so far Jason was the only one with significant comments on the series 
> so
> let's see what he says.
> 
> From my personal POV what will be left to do to get this feature ready for
> merging would be
> 
> - tightening the language:
> - thinking of and addressing all kind of corner cases.
>
> 
> Since by now from our email discussions I have I think a decent understanding
> of how the feature is supposed to work I understand how these things work but 
> I
> think there are still things that would be a bit unclear for an unprepared 
> reader.
> 
Many aspects are covered in the cover letter.

> Just to give a random example, there's no explicit time where the member kind
> of switches to the legacy/back to modern mode. I am guessing setting DRIVER
> bit through legacy interface does this. We'll want to list that.
> 
Switch between the two is the same as today how a transitional device accesses 
both the register space.
Hypervisor level vfio tiny stub driver is not involved in such switchover as 
today.

> I'll try to help find these issues and maybe even suggest wording.
> 
Sure. That will be great.

> I've delayed commenting on these until the high level design is agreed on,
> didn't want to make you waste time on polishing as the patches undergo
> significant changes, and I suggest you do the same in v4: let's make sure 
> there's
> a wide agreement on the ABI then focus on the spec language.

I agree, now that we agree on the design and ABI, lets polish above aspects you 
told in v4.
I posted v4.

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