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

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:59:19 -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 11:34 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>  (b) if that isn't an option, and the virtual devices make a mess, at
> least don't make the code uglier, just do something like:
>
>    while (!list_empty(&bus->devices)) {
>        struct pci_dev *dev = list_first_entry(struct pci_dev, bus_list);
>
>        pci_stop_bus_device(dev);
>    }
>
> which at least isn't butt ugly. Add a large comment about how
> pci_stop_bus_device() can remove multiple devices due to the virtual
> devices having been done badly.

yes, this one should work and less confusing.

>
> Who is in charge of the whole 'is_virtfn' mess? How realistic is it to
> fix that crud?

Not sure.  it seems the guy Yu Zhao (?) already left intel several years ago.

It seems  ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl for pci patches now only return Jesse.

Yinghai
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