On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:57:57 -0700 Siwei Liu <losewe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I think ideally the infrastructure should suppport flexible matching of > > NICs - netvsc is already reported to be moving to some kind of serial > > address. > > > As Stephen said, Hyper-V supports the serial UUID thing from day-one. > It's just the Linux netvsc guest driver itself does not leverage that > ID from the very beginging. > > Regards, > -Siwei I am working on that. The problem is that it requires some messy work to go from VF netdevice back to PCI device and from there to the PCI hyperv host infrastructure to find the serial number. I was hoping that the serial number would also match the concept of PCI Express device serial number. But that is a completely different ID :-( The PCI-E serial number is a hardware serial number more like MAC address. The Hyper-V serial number is more like PCI slot value.
