From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
saeedm@mellanox.com, kwankhede@nvidia.com, leon@kernel.org,
cohuck@redhat.com, jiri@mellanox.com, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 09/19] vfio/mdev: Expose mdev alias in sysfs tree
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 11:03:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191108110355.77128e6f@x1.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191108132230.GK6990@nanopsycho>
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 14:22:30 +0100
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
> Thu, Nov 07, 2019 at 05:08:24PM CET, parav@mellanox.com wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >
> >+static ssize_t alias_show(struct device *device,
> >+ struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> >+{
> >+ struct mdev_device *dev = mdev_from_dev(device);
> >+
> >+ if (!dev->alias)
> >+ return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> >+
> >+ return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", dev->alias);
> >+}
> >+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(alias);
>
> I wonder, rather than adding another sysfs file, why the alias can't be
> simply a symlink to the aliased mdev directory?
The user doesn't know the alias in advance, it seems problematic to
assume an arbitrarily named link is the alias. Thanks,
Alex
> >+
> > static const struct attribute *mdev_device_attrs[] = {
> >+ &dev_attr_alias.attr,
> > &dev_attr_remove.attr,
> > NULL,
> > };
> >--
> >2.19.2
> >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-08 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 132+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-07 16:04 [PATCH net-next 00/19] Mellanox, mlx5 sub function support Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 01/19] net/mlx5: E-switch, Move devlink port close to eswitch port Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 02/19] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Add SF vport, vport-rep support Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 03/19] net/mlx5: Introduce SF table framework Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 04/19] net/mlx5: Introduce SF life cycle APIs to allocate/free Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 05/19] net/mlx5: E-Switch, Enable/disable SF's vport during SF life cycle Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 06/19] net/mlx5: Add support for mediated devices in switchdev mode Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 10:32 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 16:03 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 16:22 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 16:29 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 18:01 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:21 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 07/19] vfio/mdev: Introduce sha1 based mdev alias Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 11:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:59 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 16:28 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 11:10 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 16:03 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 08/19] vfio/mdev: Make mdev alias unique among all mdevs Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 10:49 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:13 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 09/19] vfio/mdev: Expose mdev alias in sysfs tree Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 13:22 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:03 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2019-11-08 18:16 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 10/19] vfio/mdev: Introduce an API mdev_alias Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 11/19] vfio/mdev: Improvise mdev life cycle and parent removal scheme Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 13:01 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 16:12 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 12/19] devlink: Introduce mdev port flavour Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 20:38 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-07 21:03 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 1:17 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 1:44 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 2:20 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 2:31 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 9:46 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:45 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 16:31 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 16:43 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 18:11 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:23 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 18:34 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 18:56 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 9:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:41 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 13/19] net/mlx5: Register SF devlink port Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 14/19] net/mlx5: Share irqs between SFs and parent PCI device Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 15/19] net/mlx5: Add load/unload routines for SF driver binding Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 9:48 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 11:13 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 16/19] net/mlx5: Implement dma ops and params for mediated device Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 20:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-07 21:30 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 1:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 6:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-11-08 15:29 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 17/19] net/mlx5: Add mdev driver to bind to mdev devices Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 18/19] Documentation: net: mlx5: Add mdev usage documentation Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 16:08 ` [PATCH net-next 19/19] mtty: Optionally support mtty alias Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 6:26 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-11-08 10:45 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:08 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 15:15 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 13:46 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 15:10 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 15:28 ` Cornelia Huck
2019-11-08 15:30 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 17:54 ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08 9:51 ` [PATCH net-next 01/19] net/mlx5: E-switch, Move devlink port close to eswitch port Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 15:50 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 17:03 ` [PATCH net-next 00/19] Mellanox, mlx5 sub function support Leon Romanovsky
2019-11-07 20:10 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 6:20 ` Leon Romanovsky
2019-11-08 15:01 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-07 20:32 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-07 20:52 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 1:16 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 1:49 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 2:12 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 12:12 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 14:40 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 15:40 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 19:12 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 20:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 20:20 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 20:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 20:52 ` gregkh
2019-11-08 20:34 ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08 21:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-08 21:19 ` gregkh
2019-11-08 21:52 ` Alex Williamson
2019-11-08 22:48 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-09 0:57 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-09 17:41 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-10 19:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-10 19:48 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 14:17 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-11 14:58 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 15:06 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-19 4:51 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-09 0:12 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-09 0:45 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 2:19 ` Jason Wang
2019-11-08 21:45 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-09 0:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-09 8:46 ` gregkh
2019-11-09 11:18 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-09 17:28 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-10 9:16 ` gregkh
2019-11-09 17:27 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-10 9:18 ` gregkh
2019-11-11 3:46 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-11 5:18 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-11 13:30 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-11 14:14 ` gregkh
2019-11-11 14:37 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-10 19:37 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-11 3:57 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 16:06 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 19:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 19:34 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 19:48 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 19:41 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 20:40 ` Parav Pandit
2019-11-08 21:21 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 21:39 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-08 21:51 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-11-08 22:21 ` Jiri Pirko
2019-11-07 23:57 ` David Miller
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