Re: [PATCH v3 15/15] Drivers: hv: Add modules to expose /dev/mshv to VMMs running on Hyper-V

[Wei Liu]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 08:31:03AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 05:54:34AM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 06:52:46AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 05:07:24PM -0700, Nuno Das Neves wrote:
> > > > On 9/23/2023 12:58 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > > Also, drivers should never call pr_*() calls, always use the proper
> > > > > dev_*() calls instead.
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > We only use struct device in one place in this driver, I think that is the
> > > > only place it makes sense to use dev_*() over pr_*() calls.
> > > 
> > > Then the driver needs to be fixed to use struct device properly so that
> > > you do have access to it when you want to print messages.  That's a
> > > valid reason to pass around your device structure when needed.
> > 
> > Greg, ACRN and Nitro drivers do not pass around the device structure.
> > Instead, they rely on a global struct device. We can follow the same.
> 
> A single global struct device is wrong, please don't do that.
> 
> Don't copy bad design patterns from other drivers, be better :)
> 

If we're working with real devices like network cards or graphics cards
I would agree -- it is easy to imagine that we have several cards of the
same model in the system -- but in real world there won't be two
hypervisor instances running on the same hardware.

We can stash the struct device inside some private data fields, but that
doesn't change the fact that we're still having one instance of the
structure. Is this what you want? Or do you have something else in mind?

Thanks,
Wei.

> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
>