netdev - RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/5] if_link: Add SR-IOV configuration methods

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Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:45:41 -0700
From:	"Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>,
	"shemminger@...tta.com" <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/5] if_link: Add SR-IOV configuration
 	methods

>From: Or Gerlitz [mailto:or.gerlitz@...il.com]
>
>Williams, Mitch A <mitch.a.williams@...el.com> wrote:
>
>> To be honest, Or, this completely slipped my mind. I'll add it to my
>to-do list.
>> If it's OK with you, I'd prefer to get this set of patches in as-is and
>> add the egress qos stuff later. A lot of people have been asking for
>> these patches, so I'd rather not delay for this feature.
>
>Mitch, looking on the patch series I see that except for two patches
>([PATCH 1/5] pci: Add SR-IOV convenience functions and macros and
>[PATCH 2/4] libnetlink: Modify parser to track the first duplicated
>attributes) seven other patches have to be changed/enhanced to
>incorporate the egress qos mapping. If you prefer to do that later
>rather then now I am fine with that, but lets not leave that a side.
>
>Or.

Yeah, now that I've had a while to think about it, I agree. It's much
less painful to make the change now.

Dave and Stephen, please drop these patches. I'll update with the priority
stuff and resubmit.

Thanks for your help, Or.

-Mitch
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