netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/3] hv_netvsc: fix network namespace issues with VF support

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jun 2018 08:10:24 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        devel@...uxdriverproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/3] hv_netvsc: fix network namespace issues with VF
 support

On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 12:51:28 +0300
Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 12:44:55PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > When finding the parent netvsc device, the search needs to be across
> > all netvsc device instances (independent of network namespace).
> > 
> > Find parent device of VF using upper_dev_get routine which
> > searches only adjacent list.
> > 
> > Fixes: e8ff40d4bff1 ("hv_netvsc: improve VF device matching")
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
> > 
> > netns aware byref  
> 
> What?  Presumably that wasn't supposed to be part of the commit message.

That was leftover from earlier commit message