Re: [PATCH v6 13/21] gunyah: vm_mgr: Introduce basic VM Manager

[Elliot Berman]

On 11/10/2022 10:24 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 04:03:10PM -0800, Elliot Berman wrote:
> > > Agree, tools can be updated and that is the easy part as we grow the s/w
> > > stack around Gunyah in userspace, like we already do w/ CrosVM (Virtual
> > > Machine Manager) and QEMU will be next followed by rust-vmm. All of them
> > > can be done without Gunyah ioctls relying anything on the KVM ioctls.
> > > Elliot has also explained very well that we don't to go to KVM
> > > maintainers for any of our additions and we also don't want them to come
> > > to us, since there is no interoperability testing. It is best that both
> > > Hypervisors and their Linux interfaces evolve independently.
> >
> > Are above explanations reasonable to not re-use KVM ioctl numbers?
>
> Try getting close at least, where possible please.  As your ioctl
> numbers didn't even start at 0, it's a bit odd...

Ack, will do.

Thanks,
Elliot