netdev - RE: [PATCH v10 vfio 2/7] vfio/pds: Initial support for pds

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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 06:56:32 +0000
From: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>
To: Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@....com>, "kvm@...r.kernel.org"
	<kvm@...r.kernel.org>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"alex.williamson@...hat.com" <alex.williamson@...hat.com>, "jgg@...dia.com"
	<jgg@...dia.com>, "yishaih@...dia.com" <yishaih@...dia.com>,
	"shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com" <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@...wei.com>
CC: "shannon.nelson@....com" <shannon.nelson@....com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v10 vfio 2/7] vfio/pds: Initial support for pds_vfio VFIO
 driver

> From: Brett Creeley <brett.creeley@....com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 3, 2023 6:03 AM
> 
> This is the initial framework for the new pds_vfio device driver. This
> does the very basics of registering the PDS PCI device and configuring
> it as a VFIO PCI device.
> 
> With this change, the VF device can be bound to the pds_vfio driver on
> the host and presented to the VM as the VF's device type.

while this should be generic to multiple PDS device types this patch only
supports the ethernet VF. worth a clarification here.

> +static const struct pci_device_id
> +pds_vfio_pci_table[] = {

no need to break line.

> +
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION(PDS_VFIO_DRV_DESCRIPTION);
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.");

author usually describes the personal name plus mail address.

> +
> +	err = vfio_pci_core_init_dev(vdev);
> +	if (err)
> +		return err;
> +
> +	pds_vfio->vf_id = pci_iov_vf_id(pdev);

pci_iov_vf_id() could fail.