On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 05:55:29PM +0800, Yi Liu wrote: > > I also suggest falling back to using "/dev/char/%u:%u" if the above > > does not exist which prevents "vfio/devices/vfio" from turning into > > ABI. > > do you mean there is no matched file under /dev/vfio/devices/? Is this > possible?
The layout of /dev/ depens on udev rules, so it is possible. I only suggested it to avoid creating ABI here. > > It would be a good idea to make a general open_cdev function that does > > all this work once the sysfs is found and cdev read out of it, all the > > other vfio places can use it too. > > hmmm, it's good to have a general open_cdev() function. But I guess this > is the only place in VFIO to open the device cdev. Do you mean the vdpa > stuffes? Any place that starts from a sysfs name would be interested - I don't know what vdpa does Jason
