netdev - Re: [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: set_features should allow reset to zero

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Date:   Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:27:23 -0500
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:     Si-Wei Liu <si-wei.liu@...cle.com>
Cc:     Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, elic@...dia.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vdpa/mlx5: set_features should allow reset to zero

On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 04:56:42PM -0800, Si-Wei Liu wrote:
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Are you okay to live without this ioctl for now? I think QEMU is the one
> that needs to be fixed and will have to be made legacy guest aware. I think
> the kernel can just honor the feature negotiation result done by QEMU and do
> as what's told to.Will you agree?
> 
> If it's fine, I would proceed to reverting commit fe36cbe067 and related
> code in question from the kernel.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Siwei


Not really, I don't see why that's a good idea.  fe36cbe067 is the code
checking MTU before FEATURES_OK. Spec explicitly allows that.

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MST