netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 06/13] bnx2x: Control number of vfs dynamically

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Message-Id: <20130312.075002.1183319263027770351.davem@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:50:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...hat.com>
To:	ariele@...adcom.com
Cc:	yuvalmin@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, eilong@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 06/13] bnx2x: Control number of vfs dynamically

From: "Ariel Elior" <ariele@...adcom.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 10:51:13 +0000

> Yuval Mintz from Broadcom started the
> "New commands to configure IOV features" thread
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=133638974914452&w=2
> As the discussion developed it was realized that virtual functions
> have a wider scope than networking.
> The discussion culminated with a submission to the pci tree:
> commit 1789382a72a537447d65ea4131d8bcc1ad85ce7b
> Author: Donald Dutile <ddutile@...hat.com>
> Date:   Mon Nov 5 15:20:36 2012 -0500
> 
> Adding sriov_numvfs and sriov_totalvfs to all SR-IOV capable pci devices.
> I would like to add that sysfs is actually a very convenient place to have 
> these knobs, because the virtfn entries there are a simple reliable way to
> know which vf devices sprouted from which PF devices and what are their
> names, which is very handy when scripting with VFs.

Oh that's right, thanks for reminding me about that discussion.
I rescing my objection.
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