Re: kern/59165: vio9p(4): expose tag through sysctl or device properties

["Christoph Badura via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/59165; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christoph Badura <bad%bsd.de@localhost>
To: Ryota Ozaki <ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/59165: vio9p(4): expose tag through sysctl or device
 properties
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:55:57 +0200

 On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 12:40:58PM +0900, Ryota Ozaki wrote:
 > Okay, I've prepared another patch that adds intermediate node, hw.vio9p,
 > so I think it allows us to do further work on it:
 >   https://www.netbsd.org/~ozaki-r/vio9p-tag-sysctl.v3.patch
 > 
 > BTW, with the new patch, sysctl hw.vio9p iterates available nodes of
 > vio9p devices:
 >   kvm# sysctl hw.vio9p
 >   hw.vio9p.vio9p0.tag = test
 >   hw.vio9p.vio9p1.tag = test2
 
 Wow! Thank you!  I really didn't expect that you would do this.  Thanks
 again!
 
 > Does this behavior just satisfy your demand?
 
 I wouldn't call it a demand.  More a suggestion and what I would prefer.
 
 --chris