Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] uio/uio_pci_generic: Add SR-IOV support | From | Don Dutile <> | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:56:15 -0400 |
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On 09/28/2017 11:52 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > 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... > Well, my point is more like: why put it in uio? why not make it available via pcie, setup while/if no driver attached? i.e., other non-uio users can use the mechanism.... like libvirt? ... if a PF driver isn't required.
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