On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:14:06 -0800 Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Jakub is right that in an ideal world, this could all be managed by > userspace. But the management of network devices in Linux is a > dumpster fire! Every distro invents there own solution, last time > I counted there were six different tools claiming to be the > "one network device manager to rule them all". And that doesn't > include all the custom scripts and vendor appliances.
To be clear, I thought Long Li was saying that the goal is work around cases where VF is probed before netvsc. That seems like something that can be prevented by the hypervisor.
