Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] uio/uio_pci_generic: Add SR-IOV support | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:52:26 +0100 |
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On Thu, 2017-09-28 at 11:05 -0400, Don Dutile wrote: > ah, nickel summary: no in-kernel driver w/.sriov-configure method. > if so, now I'm up to speed with you.... > hmmmm.... > so, that would imply we need an in-kernel, pcie-common, .sriov- > configure method > that's invoked if a driver isn't bound to a device? ... yes?
Well that was kind of the point in my question below the ---
Is that something we want to be generic? Would we want to have quirks for the devices where we might *not* want it?
Anything that *has* a driver for the PF, should have .sriov_configure already. Anything that doesn't have a driver can (now) use UIO to enable SR-IOV. So we don't *have* to make it unconditionally available...[unhandled content-type:application/x-pkcs7-signature] | |