netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 07/19] vfio/mdev: Introduce sha1 based mdev alias

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Message-ID: <20191108121030.5466dd3e.cohuck@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 8 Nov 2019 12:10:30 +0100
From:   Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>
To:     Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>
Cc:     alex.williamson@...hat.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, saeedm@...lanox.com,
        kwankhede@...dia.com, leon@...nel.org, jiri@...lanox.com,
        linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 07/19] vfio/mdev: Introduce sha1 based mdev
 alias

On Thu,  7 Nov 2019 10:08:22 -0600
Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com> wrote:

> Some vendor drivers want an identifier for an mdev device that is
> shorter than the UUID, due to length restrictions in the consumers of
> that identifier.
> 
> Add a callback that allows a vendor driver to request an alias of a
> specified length to be generated for an mdev device. If generated,
> that alias is checked for collisions.
> 
> It is an optional attribute.
> mdev alias is generated using sha1 from the mdev name.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>
> ---
>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_core.c    | 123 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_private.h |   5 +-
>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_sysfs.c   |  13 ++--
>  include/linux/mdev.h             |   4 +
>  4 files changed, 135 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Is this (or any of the other mdev alias patches) different from what I
reviewed in the past?