Re: [PATCH 5/6] vdpa: introduce virtio pci driver

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Jun 08 2020 - 05:45:44 EST


On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 05:43:58PM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> >
> > > Looking at
> > > pci_match_one_device() it checks both subvendor and subdevice there.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > But IIUC there is no guarantee that driver with a specific subvendor
> > matches in presence of a generic one.
> > So either IFC or virtio pci can win, whichever binds first.
>
>
> I'm not sure I get there. But I try manually bind IFCVF to qemu's
> virtio-net-pci, and it fails.
>
> Thanks

Right but the reverse can happen: virtio-net can bind to IFCVF first.

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