netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] if_link: add client name to port profile

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1410052339550.5378@ws.cisco>
Date:	Mon, 6 Oct 2014 00:14:30 +0530 (IST)
From:	Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
cc:	Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ssujith@...co.com, benve@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] if_link: add client name to port
 profile

On Sat, 4 Oct 2014, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Maybe you could use the existing IFLA_IFALIAS?
> It is already supported by iproute tools and sysfs, and can be used by net-snmp as well.
> You would just be setting the default string, users could change it.
>

I do not think we can use ifalias here. Port profile is for SRIOV-VF
pci passthrough. vfio-pci will own the pci device and there would not be
net_device registeres for that interface on host. The client (libvirt)
unregisters the vf before binding it to vfio-pci.
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