Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-11-07 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 11/07/16 17:49, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:24:25 +0200 > Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> On 10/25/16 20:42, Alex Williamson wrote: >>> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:24:19 +0200 >>> Laszlo Ersek wrote: >>> Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device

Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-11-07 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:24:25 +0200 Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 10/25/16 20:42, Alex Williamson wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:24:19 +0200 > > Laszlo Ersek wrote: > > > >> Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device > >> installed. When VFIO users intend to assign

Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-11-02 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 10/25/16 20:24, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device > installed. When VFIO users intend to assign these devices to VMs, they > occasionally don't want to assign all of them; they'd keep a few for > host-side use. The current ID- and cla

Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-10-25 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 10/25/16 21:24, Laszlo Ersek wrote: > On 10/25/16 20:42, Alex Williamson wrote: >> FWIW, I think the reason >> this hasn't been done to date is that PCI bus addresses (except for >> root bus devices) are not stable. Depending on the system, the address >> of a given device may change, not only

Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-10-25 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 10/25/16 20:42, Alex Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:24:19 +0200 > Laszlo Ersek wrote: > >> Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device >> installed. When VFIO users intend to assign these devices to VMs, they >> occasionally don't want to assign all of

Re: [PATCH] PCI: pci-stub: accept exceptions to the ID- and class-based matching

2016-10-25 Thread Alex Williamson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 20:24:19 +0200 Laszlo Ersek wrote: > Some systems have multiple instances of the exact same kind of PCI device > installed. When VFIO users intend to assign these devices to VMs, they > occasionally don't want to assign all of them; they'd keep a few for > host-side use. The c