From: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:04:36 +0100 > Previously, it was assumed that only PCI NICs would be capable of having > virtual functions - with my proposed enhancement of dummy NIC driver > implementing (fake) ones for testing purposes, this is no longer true. > > Discussion of said patch has led to the suggestion of implementing a > bus-agnostic method for VF count retrieval so rtnetlink could work with > both real VF-capable PCI NICs as well as my dummy modifications without > introducing ugly hacks. > > The following series tries to achieve just that by introducing a bus > type callback to retrieve a device's number of VFs, implementing this > callback for PCI bus and finally adjusting rtnetlink to make use of the > generalized infrastructure. This is really nice and clean, compare it to your original approach :-) Series applied, thanks! -- 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
