linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfio/pci: Add Intel XXV710 to hidden INTx devices

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Date:   Thu, 8 Jun 2017 01:00:17 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>
Cc:     kvm@...r.kernel.org, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
        Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfio/pci: Add Intel XXV710 to hidden INTx devices

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 01:01:46PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
> XXV710 has the same broken INTx behavior as the rest of the X/XL710
> series, the interrupt status register is not wired to report pending
> INTx interrupts, thus we never associate the interrupt to the device.
> Extend the device IDs to include these so that we hide that the
> device supports INTx at all to the user.

Is vfio really the right place for the list?  Shouldn't this be
keyed off the core PCI quirk for these devices?