On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 01:32:00PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc> > Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:26:21 +0100 > > > The idea for this was born when testing VF support in iproute2 which was > > impeded by hardware requirements. In fact, not every VF-capable hardware > > driver implements all netdev ops, so testing the interface is still hard > > to do even with a well-sorted hardware shelf. > > > > To overcome this and allow for testing the user-kernel interface, this > > patch allows to turn dummy into a PF with a configurable amount of VFs. > > > > Due to the assumption that all PFs are PCI devices, this implementation > > is not completely straightforward: In order to allow for > > rtnl_fill_ifinfo() to see the dummy VFs, a fake PCI parent device is > > attached to the dummy netdev. This has to happen at the right spot so > > register_netdevice() does not get confused. This patch abuses > > ndo_fix_features callback for that. In ndo_uninit callback, the fake > > parent is removed again for the same purpose. > > > > Joint work with Sabrina Dubroca. > > > > Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <s...@queasysnail.net> > > Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc> > > Please resubmit when net-next opens back up, thanks.
Sure, thanks for the heads-up! Cheers, Phil
