Re: [PATCH] util: basic support for vendor-specific vfio drivers

On Mon, Aug 01, 2022 at 09:49:28AM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: > > > > > Fortunately these new vendor/device-specific drivers can be easily > > > > > identified as being "vfio-pci + extra stuff" - all that's needed is to > > > > > look at the output of the "modinfo $driver_name" command to see if > > > > > "vfio_pci" is in the alias list for the driver. We are moving in a direction on the kernel side to expose a sysfs under the PCI device that definitively says it is VFIO enabled, eg something like /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.6/vfio/<N> Which is how every other subsystem in the kernel works. When this lands libvirt can simply stat the vfio directory and confirm that the device handle it is looking at is vfio enabled, for all things that vfio support. My thinking had been to do the above work a bit later, but if libvirt needs it right now then lets do it right away so we don't have to worry about this hacky modprobe stuff down the road?