Re: [virtio-comment] [PATCH RFC v2] clarify device reset

[Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 11:42:12 +0100
Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> wrote:

> > > We could work around that by making a positive statement. Not telling,
> > > when the driver MUST NOT consider the reset completed, but tell when the
> > > driver SHOULD consider the reset completed.  
> 
> That could be
> 
> "The driver SHOULD consider a driver-initiated reset complete when it
> reads the device status as 0."

Sounds good to me!

> 
> > >
> > > The MUST NOT does not buy much to the driver. It knows, what is
> > > certainly wrong, but it still does not know what is right. What the
> > > driver needs is a criterion when the reset is certainly completed (so
> > > it can free up resources for example).  
> 
> Any further comments before I put together a v3 (without the RFC)?
> I also need to open a github issue for this.

No further comments. I think we are heading in the right direction.

Regards,
Halil