Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] Retrieve number of VFs in a bus-agnostic way

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On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:43:46AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> 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 :-)

Yes, indeed! Thanks a lot for pointing me into the right direction. :)

Cheers, Phil
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