* Sebastian Ott <seb...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2017-03-17 10:51:20 +0100]:

> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Dong Jia Shi wrote:
> > * Sebastian Ott <seb...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [2017-03-17 10:26:51 +0100]:
> > 
> > > On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Dong Jia Shi wrote:
> > > > For future code reuse purpose, this decouples the cio code with
> > > > the ccw device specific parts from ccw_device_cancel_halt_clear,
> > > > and makes a new common I/O interface named cio_cancel_halt_clear.
> > > 
> > > What would the user of cio_cancel_halt_clear be?
> > Hi Sebastian,
> > 
> > We are trying to introduce a new I/O subchannel driver to enable usage
> > of I/O subchannels via VFIO-CCW, so we can passthru a subchannel to a
> > KVM guest. And that new vfio-ccw subchannel driver is the user. :>
> 
> OK, thanks for the explanation. May I suggest that you put these patches
> in the series that actually introduces the new subchannel driver.
> 
Hi Sebastian,

For your reference, information of the current patch series could be
found by searching/accessing:
Subject: [PATCH v4 00/16] basic vfio-ccw infrastructure
Message-Id: <20170317031743.40128-1-bjsdj...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg438029.html

I could put you on Cc, if you would like to recieve updates of the whole
patch series.

> Sebastian
-- 
Dong Jia


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