From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 12:54:55 -0700 > The Hyper-V implementation of PCI controller has concept of 32 bit serial number > (not to be confused with PCI-E serial number). This value is sent in the protocol > from the host to indicate SR-IOV VF device is attached to a synthetic NIC. > > Using the serial number (instead of MAC address) to associate the two devices > avoids lots of potential problems when there are duplicate MAC addresses from > tunnels or layered devices. > > The patch set is broken into two parts, one is for the PCI controller > and the other is for the netvsc device. Normally, these go through different > trees but sending them together here for better review. The PCI changes > were submitted previously, but the main review comment was "why do you > need this?". This is why. > > v2 - slot name can be shorter. > remove locking when creating pci_slots; see comment for explaination Series applied, thanks.
