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

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:30:41 -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 1:34 PM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org> wrote:
> 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.

for_each_prev_safe is working...

please check attached patch...

Thanks

Yinghai

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