Re: RFC: Device isolation infrastructure

[Chris Wright]

* Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 16:16 -0800, Chris Wright wrote:
> > Since users will want to drive devices, not groups, how would you
> > enumerate and expose devices here if the user visible construct
> > exposed is groups?
> 
> We do expose the individual devices in the group, which can then be used
> for things like mmap'ing of BARs etc...

Right, one of the areas that got sticky before, which is why I wondered
how you'd manage it.

> However, at least, the ownership transition is done on a whole group
> basis

Yeah, that makes sense.

thanks,
-chris
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