linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/6] iommu: Add new iommu op to get iommu hardware information

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Message-ID: <8665f299-fd4f-738a-6492-59f0deef444f@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:42:44 +0800
From:   Baolu Lu <baolu.lu@...ux.intel.com>
To:     "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@...el.com>,
        "Liu, Yi L" <yi.l.liu@...el.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] iommu: Add new iommu op to get iommu hardware
 information

On 2023/2/10 15:28, Tian, Kevin wrote:
>> From: Liu, Yi L<yi.l.liu@...el.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, February 9, 2023 12:17 PM
>> @@ -223,6 +224,11 @@ struct iommu_iotlb_gather {
>>   /**
>>    * struct iommu_ops - iommu ops and capabilities
>>    * @capable: check capability
>> + * @hw_info: IOMMU hardware capabilities. The type of the returned data
>> is
> is it 'info' or 'capability'?

hw_info. IOMMU core does not care about specific content, so it is not
necessary to define it as capability or anything else.

Perhaps we need to change the comments a bit, say, "IOMMU hardware
information"?

Best regards,
baolu