On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 17:58:45 +0000 Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > This probably should be a separate patch. > > > I think it is trying to address the case of VF discovery in Hyper-V/Azure where > > > the reported > > > VF from Hypervisor is bogus or confused. > > > > This is for the Multi vPorts feature of MANA driver, which allows one VF to > > create multiple vPorts (NICs). They have the same PCI device and same VF > > serial number, but different MACs. > > > > So we put the change in one patch to avoid distro vendors missing this > > change when backporting the MANA driver. > > > > Thanks, > > - Haiyang > > The netvsc change should come together in the same patch with this VF > driver, otherwise the multi-vPorts functionality doesn't work properly. > > The netvsc change should not break any other existing VF drivers, because > Hyper-V NIC SR-IOV implementation requires the the NetVSC network > interface and the VF network interface should have the same MAC address, > otherwise things won't work. > > Thanks, > Dexuan Distro vendors should be able to handle a patch series. Don't see why this could not be two patch series.
