linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 26/26] vfio/xe: Add vendor-specific vfio

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Message-ID: <aPib0tHn1yK9qx2x@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:54:42 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Michał Winiarski <michal.winiarski@...el.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...el.com>,
	Thomas Hellström <thomas.hellstrom@...ux.intel.com>,
	Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@...el.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...dia.com>,
	Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@...el.com>, intel-xe@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
	Matthew Brost <matthew.brost@...el.com>,
	Michal Wajdeczko <michal.wajdeczko@...el.com>,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Tvrtko Ursulin <tursulin@...ulin.net>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@...ll.ch>,
	Lukasz Laguna <lukasz.laguna@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 26/26] vfio/xe: Add vendor-specific vfio_pci driver
 for Intel graphics

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 10:52:34AM +0200, Michał Winiarski wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 12:12:01AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > There is absolutely nothing vendor-specific here, it is a device variant
> > driver.  In fact in Linux basically nothing is ever vendor specific,
> > because vendor is not a concept that does matter in any practical sense
> > except for tiny details like the vendor ID as one of the IDs to match
> > on in device probing.
> > 
> > I have no idea why people keep trying to inject this term again and
> > again.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The reasoning was that in this case we're matching vendor ID + class
> combination to match all Intel GPUs, and not just selected device ID,
> but I get your point.

Which sounds like a really bad idea.  Is this going to work on i810
devices?  Or the odd parts povervr based parts?