netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] ibmvnic: Provide documentation for ACL sysfs files

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Message-ID: <20200831150050.3cadde6c@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:00:50 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, drt@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, ljp@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        cforno12@...ux.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] ibmvnic: Provide documentation for ACL
 sysfs files

On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:44:06 -0500 Thomas Falcon wrote:
> On 8/31/20 3:11 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > This seems similar to normal SR-IOV operation, but I've not heard of
> > use cases for them VM to know what its pvid is. Could you elaborate?  
> It's provided for informational purposes.

Seems like an information leak :S and since it's equivalent to the
standard SR-IOV functionality - we'd strongly prefer a common
interface for all use cases. sysfs won't be it. Jiri & Mellanox had 
been working on something in devlink for quite some time.