netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] ionic: support sr-iov operations

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Date:   Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:42:56 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
Cc:     Parav Pandit <parav@...lanox.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 2/2] ionic: support sr-iov operations

On Thu, 12 Dec 2019 14:40:01 -0800, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> I suppose the argument could be made that PF's probe should if the VF 
> config fails, but it might be nice to have the PF driver running to help 
> fix up whatever when sideways in the VF configuration.

If probe fails driver should probe in a degraded mode, where only
subset of devlink functionality needed for debug is available.