[PATCH 3/8] vfio/mdev: simplify mdev_type handling
Christoph Hellwig
hch at lst.de
Thu Jun 9 07:16:00 UTC 2022
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 11:27:02PM +0530, Kirti Wankhede wrote:
>> the code correctness perspective. It just isn't very useful. Just
>> like say creating a kobject without attributes in the device model.
>
> Creating kobject without kobj_type is not allowed in the kernel, similarly
> mdev registration should not be allowed without its type.
But the kobj_type doesn't need to have any attributes.
> Instead of exporting mdev_type_add/mdev_type_remove, these functions might
> be called internally from registration function.
I very fundamentally disagree. That is exactly what makes the current
interface so messy and complicated and I want to get rid of that.
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