netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces with random MAC address

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Message-ID: <4C494DEE.3010101@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:08:14 +0200
From:	Stefan Assmann <sassmann@...hat.com>
To:	Casey Leedom <leedom@...lsio.com>
CC:	"Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, shemminger@...tta.com,
	andy@...yhouse.net, harald@...hat.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	gospo@...hat.com,
	"Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sysfs: add entry to indicate network interfaces
 with random MAC address

On 23.07.2010 02:26, Casey Leedom wrote:
> 
>  Or you simply don't have the VF Driver loaded in the "Domain 0" Control OS.  When we install the cxgb4 PF Driver with "num_vf=..." this enables the PCI-E SR-IOV Capabilities within the various PFs and the corresponding VF PCI Devices are instantiated and discovered by the Domain 0 Linux OS.  But without a cxgb4vf VF Driver loaded, those devices just sit there . available for "Device Assignment" to VMs.
> 

Just out of curiosity, how do you prevent the VF driver from getting
loaded in the host? Except from blacklisting it.

  Stefan
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