netdev - Re: [pci PATCH v5 3/4] ena: Migrate over to unmanaged SR-IOV support

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Date:   Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:04:23 +0000
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
        Don Dutile <ddutile@...hat.com>
Cc:     Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>,
        "Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        linux-pci@...r.kernel.org, virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org,
        kvm@...r.kernel.org, Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Daly, Dan" <dan.daly@...el.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-nvme@...ts.infradead.org,
        Keith Busch <keith.busch@...el.com>, netanel@...zon.com,
        Maximilian Heyne <mheyne@...zon.de>,
        "Wang, Liang-min" <liang-min.wang@...el.com>,
        "Rustad, Mark D" <mark.d.rustad@...el.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Subject: Re: [pci PATCH v5 3/4] ena: Migrate over to unmanaged SR-IOV
 support

On Tue, 2018-03-13 at 07:51 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:

> Actually the suggestion I had from Don Dutile was that we should be
> looking at creating a pci-stub like driver specifically for those type
> of devices, but without the ability to arbitrarily assign devices.
> Basically we have to white-list it in one device at a time for those
> kind of things.

It's still not clear what the point of that would be.

> If you have the device ID of the thing you wanted to have work with
> pci-stub before I could look at putting together a quick driver and
> adding it to this set.

1d0f:0053 would be an example.
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