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On 2020/1/17 =E4=B8=8B=E5=8D=8810:10, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>>> Netlink based lifecycle management could be implemented for vDPA
>>>> simulator as well.
>>> This is just begging for a netlink based approach.
>>>
>>> Certainly netlink driven removal should be an agreeable standard for
>>> all devices, I think.
>> Well, I think Parav had some proposals during the discussion of mdev
>> approach. But I'm not sure if he had any RFC codes for me to integrate=
 it
>> into vdpasim.
>>
>> Or do you want me to propose the netlink API? If yes, would you prefer=
 to a
>> new virtio dedicated one or be a subset of devlink?
> Well, lets see what feed back Parav has
>
> Jason


Hi Parav:

Do you have any update on this? If it still require sometime, I will=20
post V2 that sticks to sysfs based API.

Thanks