Re: [virtio] Re: [PATCH] ccw: clarify device reset

[Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Oct 25 2021, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 7:35 AM Halil Pasic <pasic@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>> Another interesting question for the reset is system boundary. I.e. what
>> exactly is reset.  Some publications describe possible electric
>> signaling interfaces, and I doubt this kind of a reset would be a
>> complete reset of the device from that perspective. But that  question is
>> not what this patch is about. It just came to my mind.
>
> Since virtio is built on top of the transport. I think the lower level
> (transport) reset implies a virtio reset.

...ok, maybe I misrepresented your reply in my reply to Halil (should
not write before the first coffee). But I would indeed expect a
low-level reset (e.g. a channel subsystem reset) to imply that the
virtio structures are reset as well.