On 8/25/20 6:04 AM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:56:01 -0400
Tony Krowiak <akrow...@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
Let's set a version for the vfio_ap module so that automated regression
tests can determine whether dynamic configuration tests can be run or
not.
Signed-off-by: Tony Krowiak <akrow...@linux.ibm.com>
---
drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c
b/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c
index be2520cc010b..f4ceb380dd61 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/crypto/vfio_ap_drv.c
@@ -17,10 +17,12 @@
#define VFIO_AP_ROOT_NAME "vfio_ap"
#define VFIO_AP_DEV_NAME "matrix"
+#define VFIO_AP_MODULE_VERSION "1.2.0"
MODULE_AUTHOR("IBM Corporation");
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("VFIO AP device driver, Copyright IBM Corp. 2018");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");
+MODULE_VERSION(VFIO_AP_MODULE_VERSION);
static struct ap_driver vfio_ap_drv;
Setting a version manually has some drawbacks:
- tools wanting to check for capabilities need to keep track which
versions support which features
- you need to remember to actually bump the version when adding a new,
visible feature
(- selective downstream backports may get into a pickle, but that's
arguably not your problem)
Is there no way for a tool to figure out whether this is supported?
E.g., via existence of a sysfs file, or via a known error that will
occur. If not, it's maybe better to expose known capabilities via a
generic interface.
This patch series introduces a new mediated device sysfs attribute,
guest_matrix, so the automated tests could check for the existence
of that interface. The problem I have with that is it will work for
this version of the vfio_ap device driver - which may be all that is
ever needed - but does not account for future enhancements
which may need to be detected by tooling or automated tests.
It seems to me that regardless of how a tool detects whether
a feature is supported or not, it will have to keep track of that
somehow.
Can you provide more details about this generic interface of
which you speak?
