netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] nfp: allow application firmware to limit number of SR-IOV VFs

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Date:   Sun, 19 Feb 2017 11:51:50 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     "Mintz, Yuval" <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
Cc:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "oss-drivers@...ronome.com" <oss-drivers@...ronome.com>,
        "dinan.gunawardena@...ronome.com" <dinan.gunawardena@...ronome.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] nfp: allow application firmware to limit
 number of SR-IOV VFs

On Sun, Feb 19, 2017 at 8:00 AM, Mintz, Yuval <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com> wrote:
>> +static void nfp_pcie_sriov_read_nfd_limit(struct nfp_pf *pf)
>> +{
>> +     int err;
>> +
>> +     pf->limit_vfs = nfp_rtsym_read_le(pf->cpp, "nfd_vf_cfg_max_vfs",
>> &err);
>> +     if (!err)
>> +             return;
>> +
>> +     pf->limit_vfs = ~0;
>> +     /* Allow any setting for backwards compatibility if symbol not found
>> */
>> +     if (err != -ENOENT)
>> +             nfp_warn(pf->cpp, "Warning: VF limit read failed: %d\n", err);
>> +}
>> +
>
> If you're only going to use this under CONFIG_PCI_IOV,
> perhaps put this underneath the ifdef as well?

Sure, I have a slight preference to not use ifdefs unless necessary,
but I guess the body of this function could be under an ifdef without
making things too ugly..  Thanks :)  Testing almost done, v2 coming
shortly.