Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:41:30 -0600 | From | Alex Chiang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/4 v2] PCI: support SR-IOV capability |
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* Zhao, Yu <yu.zhao@intel.com>: > On Tuesday, September 02, 2008 12:41 AM, Alex Chiang wrote: > > > >So, what happens if another hotplug driver is already loaded? > > > >I don't know the SR-IOV spec well enough to know if you are > >allowed to have SR-IOV + some other form of hotplug, like ACPI or > >native PCIe. > > > >Today, pci_hp_register will return -EBUSY. > > > >If SR-IOV really doesn't have anything to do with hotplug, then > >it may be a candidate for directly calling pci_create_slot(). In > >that case, 'param' should not be a property of a hotplug slot, > >but of a generic PCI slot. > > That's correct, SR-IOV really doesn't have anything to do with > hotplug. I was just reusing hotplug sysfs as the control > interface. Will remove this in next work, and create SR-IOV own > sysfs entries under /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../iov/...
That sounds like a much better idea to me, thanks.
/ac
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