On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:37:54AM +0800, Jike Song wrote: > Jesse Barnes wrote: > > Given a respin of 10-13 I think it's reasonable to merge this into 2.6.29, but > > I'd be much happier about it if we got some driver code along with it, so as > > not to have an unused interface sitting around for who knows how many > > releases. Is that reasonable? Do you know if any of the corresponding PF/VF > > driver bits are ready yet? > > Hi Jesse, > > Yu Zhao has posted a patch set with subject "SR-IOV driver example" > at November 26, which illustrated the usage of SR-IOV API in Intel 82576 VF/PF > drivers;-) Yes, but that driver was soundly rejected by the network driver maintainers, so I wouldn't go around showing that as your primary example of how to use this interface :) The point is valid, I don't think these apis should go into the tree without a driver or some other code using them. Otherwise they make no sense at all to have in-tree. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
