On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:43:46AM -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Phil Sutter <p...@nwl.cc> > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 14:04:36 +0100 > > > Previously, it was assumed that only PCI NICs would be capable of having > > virtual functions - with my proposed enhancement of dummy NIC driver > > implementing (fake) ones for testing purposes, this is no longer true. > > > > Discussion of said patch has led to the suggestion of implementing a > > bus-agnostic method for VF count retrieval so rtnetlink could work with > > both real VF-capable PCI NICs as well as my dummy modifications without > > introducing ugly hacks. > > > > The following series tries to achieve just that by introducing a bus > > type callback to retrieve a device's number of VFs, implementing this > > callback for PCI bus and finally adjusting rtnetlink to make use of the > > generalized infrastructure. > > This is really nice and clean, compare it to your original approach :-)
Yes, indeed! Thanks a lot for pointing me into the right direction. :) Cheers, Phil
