> existing function-specific tools. For example, these are things that make > the Eth PCI device appear on the PCI bus That sounds like a common operation which many vendors will need? So why use fwctl for this? The whole point of fwctl is things which are highly vendor specific and not networking. Isn't this even generic for any sort of SR-IOV? Wouldn't you need the same sort of operation for a GPU, or anything with a pool of resources which can be mapped to VFs? If you really want to use this as you key selling point, you need to clearly explain why is this highly vendor specific and cannot be generalised. Andrew
