Re: [PATCH 1/2] misc: Reserve minor for VFIO

2013-12-13 Thread One Thousand Gnomes
> VFIO currently allocates it's own dynamic chardev range, reserving the > first minor for the control part of the interface (/dev/vfio/vfio) and > the remainder for VFIO groups (/dev/vfio/$GROUP). This works, but it > doesn't support auto loading. For instance when libvirt checks for > VFIO supp

[PATCH 1/2] misc: Reserve minor for VFIO

2013-12-12 Thread Alex Williamson
VFIO currently allocates it's own dynamic chardev range, reserving the first minor for the control part of the interface (/dev/vfio/vfio) and the remainder for VFIO groups (/dev/vfio/$GROUP). This works, but it doesn't support auto loading. For instance when libvirt checks for VFIO support it loo