[PATCH v16 5/6] vfio: ABI for mdev display dma-buf operation

[Alex Williamson]

On Mon, 06 Nov 2017 10:05:34 +0100
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel at redhat.com> wrote:

>   Hi,
> 
> > > I thought we had agreed to make this behave similar to
> > > VFIO_GROUP_GET_DEVICE_FD, the ioctl would take a __u32 dmabuf_id
> > > and
> > > return the file descriptor as the ioctl return value.  Thanks,  
> > 
> > If we follow VFIO_GROUP_GET_DEVICE_FD, we would lose flags
> > functionality.
> > Zhi and Zhenyu, how do you think about it?  
> 
> The ioctl is simple enough that not having flags should not be a
> problem I think.
> 
> Also note that dmabuf_id is received using the PLANE_INFO ioctl, so
> should the need arise to negotiate something in the future chances are
> high that it can be done using the PLANE_INFO ioctl flags.

Right, the ioctl is "get fd for thing" so we have control of "thing".
I think we had this same discussion on v15.  Thanks,

Alex