Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] Use of unique identifier for pairing virtio and passthrough devices...

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 04:00:36PM +0300, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > The assumption of failover driver is that the primary (PT device) will be
> > able to get a datapath once it shows up in the guest .
> 
> I wonder how universal this assumption is

Not universal at all. It is however the simplest
use-case we could think of, and that is as a result already
supported by Linux.

I for one will be happy if we spec out a fuller support
for more use-cases but it's probably orthogonal to
grouping.

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MST