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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 13/26] gunyah: vm_mgr: Add ioctls to support basic
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On 3/21/2023 7:24 AM, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:

> On 04/03/2023 01:06, Elliot Berman wrote:
>> +
>> +#define GH_VM_START        _IO(GH_IOCTL_TYPE, 0x3)
> A comment here that this is going to *ONLY* start an un-authenticated VM 
> would be useful to the users.
> 

There is only support for unauthenticated VM in the UAPI being proposed 
and I'd like to re-use GH_VM_START ioctl for other VM types as well. Is 
the comment really useful? I can easily see forgetting to remove the 
comment and then being more confusing once the other VM types get added.

Thanks,
Elliot