Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Oct 2013 10:36:15 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Generic WorkQueue Engine (GenWQE) device driver (v4) |
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:32:58AM +0100, Frank Haverkamp wrote: > +/* > + * Module initialization and PCIe setup. Card health monitoring and > + * recovery functionality. Character device creation and deletion are > + * controlled from here. > + * > + * Please use the new sysfs interfaces to enable the VFs after PF > + * driver loading. > + * > + * Enable VFs: > + * sudo sh -c 'echo 15 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:1b\:00.0/sriov_numvfs' > + * or > + * sudo sh -c 'echo 15 > /sys/class/genwqe/genwqe0_card/device/sriov_numvfs' > + * Disable VFs: > + * Write a 0 into the same sysfs entries. > + */
Put this documentation somewhere a user has a _chance_ of reading it. Digging it out of code comments is not ok. Why isn't this in the ABI file for the sysfs files?
thanks,
greg k-h
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