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Message-ID: <5003DC9B.8000706@broadcom.com> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:19:23 +0300 From: "Yuval Mintz" <yuvalmin@...adcom.com> To: "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net> cc: "Chris Friesen" <chris.friesen@...band.com>, "Ben Hutchings" <bhutchings@...arflare.com>, "Greg Rose" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-pci@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: New commands to configure IOV features >>>> If I want to pick the RFCs and add support for configuring the number >>>> of VFs - do you think ethtool's the right place for such added >>>> support? >>>> >>> I think a PCI utility tool would be better, SR-IOV is not limited to >>> network devices. That's one of the reasons I dropped the RFC. I >>> haven't gotten back to the idea since then due to my day job keeping me >>> pretty busy. >> >> For what it's worth, I agree with this. > > From my perspective it would be ideal if this could be exported via /sys or something > Well, obviously unless there was a sudden change in our stance regarding sysfs we will not head that way. This thread got no replies from the pci community, and I'm unfamiliar with such a tool. Dave, What's your stance in the matter - do you wish us to continue pursuing some pci tool (which might or might not exist), or instead work on a networking solution to this issue? Do you happen to know such a tool? Thanks, Yuval -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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