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

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Date:   Fri, 11 Nov 2022 07:24:13 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Elliot Berman <quic_eberman@...cinc.com>
Cc:     Trilok Soni <quic_tsoni@...cinc.com>,
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        Bjorn Andersson <quic_bjorande@...cinc.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 13/21] gunyah: vm_mgr: Introduce basic VM Manager

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...

thanks,

greg k-h