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virtio: allow drivers to validate features

Some drivers can't support all features in all configurations.  At the
moment we blindly set FEATURES_OK and later FAILED.  Support this better
by adding a callback drivers can use to do some early checks.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Michael S. Tsirkin 8 years ago
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2 changed files with 7 additions and 0 deletions
  1. 6 0
      drivers/virtio/virtio.c
  2. 1 0
      include/linux/virtio.h

+ 6 - 0
drivers/virtio/virtio.c

@@ -232,6 +232,12 @@ static int virtio_dev_probe(struct device *_d)
 		if (device_features & (1ULL << i))
 			__virtio_set_bit(dev, i);
 
+	if (drv->validate) {
+		err = drv->validate(dev);
+		if (err)
+			goto err;
+	}
+
 	err = virtio_finalize_features(dev);
 	if (err)
 		goto err;

+ 1 - 0
include/linux/virtio.h

@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ struct virtio_driver {
 	unsigned int feature_table_size;
 	const unsigned int *feature_table_legacy;
 	unsigned int feature_table_size_legacy;
+	int (*validate)(struct virtio_device *dev);
 	int (*probe)(struct virtio_device *dev);
 	void (*scan)(struct virtio_device *dev);
 	void (*remove)(struct virtio_device *dev);