Greg KH wrote:
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.
I agree the point is valid, but on another hand this is a 'the chicken &
the egg' problem -- if we don't have the SR-IOV base, people who are
developing PF drivers can not get their changes in-tree. Maybe they are
holding the patches and waiting on the infrastructure... :-)
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