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Message-Id: <20170120.114346.786441265338417344.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:43:46 -0500 (EST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: phil@....cc
Cc: bhelgaas@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-pci@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] Retrieve number of VFs in a bus-agnostic
way
From: Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:04:36 +0100
> Previously, it was assumed that only PCI NICs would be capable of having
> virtual functions - with my proposed enhancement of dummy NIC driver
> implementing (fake) ones for testing purposes, this is no longer true.
>
> Discussion of said patch has led to the suggestion of implementing a
> bus-agnostic method for VF count retrieval so rtnetlink could work with
> both real VF-capable PCI NICs as well as my dummy modifications without
> introducing ugly hacks.
>
> The following series tries to achieve just that by introducing a bus
> type callback to retrieve a device's number of VFs, implementing this
> callback for PCI bus and finally adjusting rtnetlink to make use of the
> generalized infrastructure.
This is really nice and clean, compare it to your original approach :-)
Series applied, thanks!
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