On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:59 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 09:59:09PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote: >> I still struggle to understand why we need this "unmanaged" >> complication and how a user of the sysfs API is expected to have any >> idea whether a PF is managed or unmanaged and why they should care. >> Can't we just have a pci_simple_sriov_configure() helper and ignore >> this unmanaged business? Thanks, > > Just a pci_simple_sriov_configure is exactly what I envisioned originally. I can drop the "unmanaged" bits if that is what is wanted, but based on previous conversations I thought there was some concern about the kernel loading VFs when there was some foreign entity managing the VFs other than the kernel. Thanks. - Alex
