Allow mdev drivers to directly create the vfio_device (v3)

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 05:13:13AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 05:35:15PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Yes, the rest of the drivers will get converted eventually too. There
> > is no reason to hold things back. Depending on timelines we might be
> > able to get AP into this cycle too...
> 
> And I have a WIP tree to get rid of the weird indirections in i915/gvt.
> Once I find some cycles to test that I'll also test the vfio interface
> conversion.  This will probably be for next cycle, though.

Wow, that is a major project cool

I was going to ping the gvt guys once we get this landed

Jason