netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F

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Date:   Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:36:13 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     sridhar.samudrala@...el.com
Cc:     mst@...hat.com, stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_MASTER
 feature bit

From: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
Date: Tue,  2 Jan 2018 16:35:37 -0800

> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> index fc353b518288..a9b4e0836786 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
> @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
>  #define VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ	22	/* Device supports Receive Flow
>  					 * Steering */
>  #define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23	/* Set MAC address */
> +#define VIRTIO_NET_F_MASTER	62	/* act as master for a VF device */

Please respin this series with something in this commit message which
explains why we are using "62" rather than something like "24" here.

Thank you.