linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] PCI: Make sriov work with hotplug remove

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:34:51 -0800
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@...fujitsu.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] PCI: Make sriov work with hotplug remove

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe we can put VF and PF in bus->devices like:
>> VF come first than PF?
>
> Ugh. Ok, so that's a disgusting hack, but it's better than messing up
> the generic PCI subsystem. At least it's a disgusting hack in the IOV
> code.

just tested, the patch with this hack works.

>
> I still would prefer to just do the virtual devices right instead. Or
> even just make the removal loop inherently robust, rather than have
> that insane knowledge of virtual function devices that were done so
> horribly wrong.

ok, let me think about it more.

>
> Or even just *keep* the virtual devices on the list even though the
> physical device has been removed - make them independent of the
> physical device.

ah, not sure how this going to work.

Yinghai
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