[PATCH] ccw: clarify device reset

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Cornelia Huck <>
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2021-10-25T07:37:00+00:00
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[PATCH] ccw: clarify device reset
On Mon, Oct 25 2021, Jason Wang <> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 7:35 AM Halil Pasic <> 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.